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From 2022: How an Undercover Colorado Springs Police Officer Tried to Entrap #Leftists with Illegal Firearms Charges
March 8, 2022, #ItsGoingDown
"Thanks to reporting from Colorado Springs Independent, it is now public knowledge that #ColoradoSprings Police infiltrated the #ChinookCenter and a number of groups that organize there such as Colorado Springs #DemocraticSocialistsOf merica (#DSA) and Colorado Springs #TenantUnion, using a pink haired cop named April Rogers who went by 'Chelsie Kurti' and pretended to be a sex worker.
"#CSPD’s infiltration of Chinook Center initially looked exactly like their infiltration of Colorado Springs Socialists back in 2017: Go undercover into an easy-to-join leftist group, surveil, and arrest as many people as possible as soon as they take a march off the sidewalk. However, we recently had a couple of local activists who had previously been involved with Chinook Center reach out to us with their experiences involving CSPD officer April Rogers. These experiences show a police department desperate to entrap leftist organizers. If there’s no crime, Colorado Springs Police Department will create one.
"If you are involved in any level of left-wing, anti-capitalist, or anti-state political organizing – tighten up your security. We highly encourage anyone involved in radical organizing to create an alias for yourself and use a separate phone number and email for organizing purposes. Apps like Burner and MySudo provide burner phone numbers and emails. You can also follow this guide to create an anonymous Signal number.
"As this situation with the Chinook Center also shows, standing with survivors of abuse can also protect you from police infiltration.
"The CSPD undercover wasn’t going around smashing windows or planting piles of bricks in order to justify violent police repression, she was quietly surveilling everyone she could, asking for personal information, adding folks on social media, and as we’ve recently learned, working to get local leftists to buy firearms for her illegally. Officer April Rogers repeatedly asked about levels of gun knowledge, about building firearms, and suggested making straw purchases. She also spoke about some kind of front range gun running operation, and suggested starting a leftist 'militia.'
"We’ve attached statements from two leftist organizers who had the misfortune of being targeted by Officer April Rogers posing as Chelsi Kurti. These statements provide an important look into the tactics of the police, and show that they’ll create crimes where there are none. The idea that your group is above ground and therefore you were never in any danger is incredibly naive."
Read more:
https://itsgoingdown.org/how-colorado-springs-police-tried-to-entrap-leftists/
#Activists #Entrapment #FBI #ACAB #SpyingOnActivists #CriminalizingDissent
March 8, 2022, #ItsGoingDown
"Thanks to reporting from Colorado Springs Independent, it is now public knowledge that #ColoradoSprings Police infiltrated the #ChinookCenter and a number of groups that organize there such as Colorado Springs #DemocraticSocialistsOf merica (#DSA) and Colorado Springs #TenantUnion, using a pink haired cop named April Rogers who went by 'Chelsie Kurti' and pretended to be a sex worker.
"#CSPD’s infiltration of Chinook Center initially looked exactly like their infiltration of Colorado Springs Socialists back in 2017: Go undercover into an easy-to-join leftist group, surveil, and arrest as many people as possible as soon as they take a march off the sidewalk. However, we recently had a couple of local activists who had previously been involved with Chinook Center reach out to us with their experiences involving CSPD officer April Rogers. These experiences show a police department desperate to entrap leftist organizers. If there’s no crime, Colorado Springs Police Department will create one.
"If you are involved in any level of left-wing, anti-capitalist, or anti-state political organizing – tighten up your security. We highly encourage anyone involved in radical organizing to create an alias for yourself and use a separate phone number and email for organizing purposes. Apps like Burner and MySudo provide burner phone numbers and emails. You can also follow this guide to create an anonymous Signal number.
"As this situation with the Chinook Center also shows, standing with survivors of abuse can also protect you from police infiltration.
"The CSPD undercover wasn’t going around smashing windows or planting piles of bricks in order to justify violent police repression, she was quietly surveilling everyone she could, asking for personal information, adding folks on social media, and as we’ve recently learned, working to get local leftists to buy firearms for her illegally. Officer April Rogers repeatedly asked about levels of gun knowledge, about building firearms, and suggested making straw purchases. She also spoke about some kind of front range gun running operation, and suggested starting a leftist 'militia.'
"We’ve attached statements from two leftist organizers who had the misfortune of being targeted by Officer April Rogers posing as Chelsi Kurti. These statements provide an important look into the tactics of the police, and show that they’ll create crimes where there are none. The idea that your group is above ground and therefore you were never in any danger is incredibly naive."
Read more:
https://itsgoingdown.org/how-colorado-springs-police-tried-to-entrap-leftists/
#Activists #Entrapment #FBI #ACAB #SpyingOnActivists #CriminalizingDissent