John,
For years, the FBI has been using their resources to surveil and investigate people protesting for racial justice against police brutality — including activists like Cori.
That’s why last week Cori asked the FBI to send her a file of all the information they’ve collected on her. Then, at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Cori directly asked FBI Director Christopher Wray why they had been surveilling her work as an organizer and activist in Ferguson after police killed 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Cori knows that the FBI needs to be held accountable for their history of criminalizing and intimidating protesters for racial justice. They need to answer for the disparate treatment they’ve applied to people protesting in defense of Black lives vs. the white supremacists that attacked the Capitol on January 6th.
That’s why Cori spoke out this week against their efforts suppressing protests for racial justice.
Cori has co-organized and co-led hundreds of protests alongside the amazing Ferguson frontline in defense of Black lives and to send a message that Black lives matter.
She understands firsthand the pain of police violence — what it’s like to be brutalized on the ground just for saying your life matters — and the urgent need to keep our community members safe.
That’s why she understood the importance of calling out the FBI Director for surveilling and violently harassing protestors. It was a big moment for our movement, but we know that there’s still so much work ahead of us to dismantle white supremacy and combat systemic racism in our country.
Together,
Team Cori
