cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/86665
“Undercover operatives were planted among the protesters as instigators; not just observers,” the motion alleges. To make matters worse, the Department of Justice, run by Attorney General Merrick Garland, withheld information about these embedded informants from the Proud Boys’ defense, and one undercover Metropolitan police officer was able to destroy evidence. The Proud Boys were charged with seditious conspiracy, and the trial, which started in December, is nearing its end. “Again, this content would have been absolutely exculpatory if timely provided to defendants,” the motion reads.
“We still do not know the extent to which the crowd’s First Amendment demonstrations were transformed into violence by undercover law enforcement officers.”