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Activist Sam Beard approached by the FBI & Joint Terrorism Task Force, seemingly for support of #StopCopCity movement and defendant #LuigiMangione (1/3)
Activist in Stop Cop City Movement/ Luigi Mangione Legal Defense Fund Spokesperson Visited by F.B.I. Joint Terrorism Task Force Sam Beard's Public Statement Continues on the Following Slides:
On Tuesday, April 1, 2025, two officers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Joint Terrorism Task Force visited the home of activist and media personality Sam Beard: a lifelong resident of Illinois, a spokesperson for Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund, and former media activist within the Stop Cop City movement. The visit appears to be part of a growing effort by the Trump administration to intimidate, detain, and even disappear political dissidents.
FBI officers Trevor Stotts and Alex Dehr, stationed out of the FBI's Chicago field office, knocked on Beard's door around 12:00 pm. The officers claimed they wanted to speak to Beard about his relationship to the Weelaunee Defense Society, a national network of community organizations opposed to the spread of militarized police training centers known as "Cop Cities." ("Weelaunee" is the traditional Muscogee name for a forest that was recently clear-cut to make way for one such facility in Atlanta, Georgia.) Beard did not open his door and referred the officers to his attorney.
Beard, who helped organize a march against Atlanta's Cop City in 2023 and now co-hosts "Party Girls," a popular leftwing podcast, is not the first Stop Cop City activist to be targeted by law enforcement. Since 2023, 61 other people have been facing felony charges in Georgia, including racketeering and domestic terrorism, for allegedly attending concerts, handing out flyers, and joining other protests against the project. One protester, Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán was killed in a hail of police gunfire while participating in an encampment in the forest. The recent FBI attention to Beard suggests the feds have further expand their list of targets for political persecution to include US citizens engaged in First Amendment-protected activities.
#StopCopCity #luigimangione
LukefromDC
NICE WORK turtling up and refusing to open! All of us need to do that, all of the time. Been there, done that.
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