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Marchers protesting the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers block Central in Downtown on May 31. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Last summer, as the movement against racial injustice swept the country, officials in the Albuquerque Police Department asked the Drug Enforcement Administration for the assistance of special agents to do undercover operations and surveillance at protests, according to an investigative report from the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington published on Friday.
The government watchdog group published emails from Kyle Williamson, the DEA’s special agent in charge at the El Paso division, to officials with the Department of Justice. It also published similar requests from police departments in Chicago and Philadelphia.