LAPD Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday a report on the department's decision to place an informant inside a group of anti-Trump protesters could be made public in weeks, but also suggested the group had past links to violence in other cities.
revealed that the LAPD ordered an informant to spy on members of a political group planning protests against President Trump in 2017 in Los Angeles, Chief Michel Moore said Tuesday that his agency would soon publish findings of an investigation into the matter.
For four weeks in October 2017, the LAPD’s Major Crimes Division sent the informant to secretly record audio of Refuse Fascism’s meetings, which were held inside an Echo Park church, as the group planned demonstrations to mark the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s election. Civil rights advocates and experts who monitor the political fringe have said the LAPD’s tactics needlessly stepped on the group’s First Amendment rights, since Refuse Fascism has rarely been linked to violence.
“The investigation, as I understand it today, is that members that identified themselves as being within this group had traveled to other parts of the country, and that in other parts of the country, there had been criminal acts including vandalism, assault with a deadly weapon or arson,” Moore said. “Whether or not these individuals that are here in the L.A.
Taken together with other instances of political violence that rocked the country in 2017 — including the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that left a woman dead and dozens injured — Moore said the department was on high alert for potential threats on the anniversary of Trump’s victory.
Members of Refuse Fascism shouted at Moore after he suggested the group was linked to criminal activity, referring to his remarks as “slander.” Isabel Cardenas, a longtime city activist who is also affiliated with the group, called on the Police Commission to explain why they had been subject to covert surveillance.“Who of you ordered a police informant to spy on our meetings, held at a church no less?” Cardenas asked. “We are not terrorists. Our constitutional rights were violated.
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