"Newly obtained internal documents reveal that the Washington, DC, police have been paying for and using online surveillance tools to monitor citizens' social media activity and track geo-locations…
"An email below from 2015, shows that Babel Street provided the DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, a fusion center to which the police belong, a list of people who had been present in both Baltimore & Ferguson, Missouri, during protests against police brutality, revealing they were tracking their social media accounts, and geo-locating them.
A fusion center analyst then shared the list with DC police department personnel.
