Death Penalty
Md. Cops Spied on Groups Supporting Peace, Opposing Capital Punishment
Posted Jul 18, 2008, 12:14 pm CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Documents released by American Civil Liberties Union show undercover officers with the Maryland State Police spied on peace activists and groups opposing the death penalty.
In some cases the activists’ names were entered in a database of people believed to be terrorists or drug dealers, the Baltimore Sun reports. The spying occurred in 2005 and 2006, according to the documents (PDF).
The targeted groups were a peace organization called the Baltimore Pledge of Resistance, and two groups opposing capital punishment, the Baltimore Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the Committee to Save Vernon Evans.
Investigators attended meetings of the death penalty coalition and tailed members of the group supporting Vernon Evans, a death-row inmate. The investigators’ reports were sent to at least seven law enforcement agencies at the federal and local levels.
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Posted by Honjii - 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 12 hours, 24 minutes ago
You would think the Maryland state police would make better use of the taxpayer funds available to them.
Posted by Erik Pritchard - 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 52 minutes ago
Wow, that is really Big Brother.
Posted by Richard Prayer - 2 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes ago
Who cares, these people are leftists who would kill us all given half the chance. Have none of you people ever seen the movie Red Dawn?