The secret police: Inside the app Minnesota police used to collect data on journalists at protests
Published Date: 3/23/2022
Source: technologyreview.com
In April of last year, a freelance photojournalist named J.D. Duggan was covering a protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, when things took a disturbing turn. A few days earlier, a police officer in Brooklyn Center had shot and killed 20 year-old Daunte Wright, and a community wounded and incensed by George…