“It’s troubling,” said Martin Stolar, a civil rights attorney who’s spent nearly five decades challenging NYPD surveillance overreach. “It sounds like they put the informant to work circulating among the protesters. We don’t know how far back it extends, how long they had this guy in play.”
The NYPD’s paid informants have previously faced scrutiny for their role in pushing their targets to commit or discuss crimes. A former NYPD informant told the Associated Press that he was paid $1,000 to “bait” his Muslim associates into making incriminating statements. In another high-profile case, a paid NYPD informant allegedly spent months plying Jose Pimentel with food and marijuana, enticing the apparently unstable man to build a bomb.
“The way they stay on the payroll is turning over criminals, so they have an incentive to create crime,” Stolar told Gothamist. “They’re working for money. They’re not working for justice.”
Source: The NYPD Paid An Informant To Help A BLM Protester Charged With Sabotaging Police Van – Gothamist


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