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[โ€“] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When federal agents were actually protecting minorities.

[โ€“] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much only the federal agents who were directly ordered to though, most of the rest of them were busy putting the boot on minorities here and everywhere else in the world.

[โ€“] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 hours ago

yeah this is the era of COINTELPRO, they were only helping minorities while on camera