New York: Police program stalking Muslims denounced by whistleblower

NYPD informant who tracked militants quits, denounces police

Police barricade in NYC (Mario Tama, Getty Images)

By Mark Hosenball, Reuters, October 22, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An informant recruited by the New York Police Department to collect information on suspected Islamic militants has quit and denounced his police handlers, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the case.

The informant, a 19-year-old American citizen of Bangladeshi descent, was recruited by the NYPD recently as part of an expansive intelligence-gathering program the department launched after the al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. His assignment was to make contact with suspected Islamic extremists to try to determine if they had any inclinations to engage in violence, the source said.

On October 2, however, the informant, whom the source did not name, posted a message on his personal Facebook page exposing himself as an informant to people he had been in contact with. He declared that he had quit as a police informant.

“I was jus (sic) of pretending to be friends with ya cuz I honestly thought i was fighting terrorism, but let’s be real, it’s all a f…king scheme,” the informant wrote, according to the source. “It was all about the money,” he added.

The source said that the informant was not involved in an investigation that led to the arrest of a Bangladeshi man last week in connection with an alleged scheme to bomb the New York Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan.

Oakland’s police department, most brutal in the US, not part of the 99%

by hellagetto

Nov 2, 2011
Long before Lil’ Bobby Hutton, a 16 year old member of the Black Panther Party was gunned down by OPD (1968) to the still unnamed black man gunned down by OPD two weeks ago, Oakland’s police department has a long-standing reputation of shooting, planting evidence, harassing and otherwise terrorizing the community.

More recently, OPD raided Occupy Oakland in the early morning while protestors were asleep. That same night ,October 25th under the watchful eyes of OPD, Scott Olsen, a two-tour Iraq War veteran suffered a head wound for peacefully protesting in downtown Oakland. OPD claims not to have tear gas, rubber bullets nor concussion grenades due to federal orders currently against the department. The other 17 law enforcement agencies called in for back up are forbidden under a consent decree to bring in such weaponry as well. (OPD has been “monitored” by the feds since 2003.)

This footage is from a anti-police brutality community speak out held just in front of the Occupy Oakland camp on October 29, 2011.