> For the past year we have had not-always-fully-peaceful riots with many deaths and tremendous amount of property loss. Through all this, the FBI never breathe

> For the past year we have had not-always-fully-peaceful riots with many deaths and tremendous amount of property loss. Through all this, the FBI never breathed down the neck of the protestors- not even those who could have been actually committing a crime. I don't think this claim is accurate. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have always been happy to investigate and suppress nonviolent protest activity (much of it from the left). Other commenters have pointed out the FBI's involvement. Other state overreactions that immediately come to mind: - Oil companies and the North Dakota AG working with private military contractors to "defeat" peaceful protests oil pipelines https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/ https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-... - Military surveillance technology used against peaceful graduate student protests at UC Santa Cruz https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kppna/california-police-used-military-surveillance-tech-at-grad-student-strike https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kppna/california-police-use... - 'The Drug Enforcement Administration has been granted sweeping new authority to “conduct covert surveillance” and collect intelligence on people participating in protests over the police killing of George Floyd, according to a two-page memorandum obtained by BuzzFeed News.' https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/george-floyd-police-brutality-protests-government https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/george-flo... Among others. eta: more good reading here -- https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/terrorism-fbi-political-dissent/ https://theintercept.com/2019/10/22/terrorism-fbi-political-...