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In 2020, as racial justice demonstrations spread nationwide and the most significant Black political movement in decades grew larger, the FBI was convinced that extreme Black political activists would cross the line into domestic terrorism.
That summer, the FBI enlisted Mickey Windecker, a tattooed White man who drove a silver hearse, as a paid informant. Windecker claimed he’d heard racial justice activists speak vaguely of violent revolution in Denver. The FBI gave him a recording device and instructed him to infiltrate the city’s growing Black Lives Matter movement.
For months, Windecker spied on activists and attempted to recruit two Black men into an FBI-engineered plot to assassinate the state’s attorney general.
This week, in an episode that first aired last fall, we partner with the Alphabet Boys podcast and journalist Trevor Aaronson to explore the first documented case of FBI infiltration in the modern racial justice movement.
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