Five Occupy Cleveland activists were arrested in 2012 after an FBI informant infiltrated the group and provided fake explosives to blow up a bridge. The FBI knows who you are and where you are, and that has a chilling effect on the activist community for sure. The FBI knows who you are and where you are, and that has a chilling effect on the activist community for sure,” Hermes said. “It’s about putting the activist community on guard. “Some of them have been very nice like this,” Greene warned her listeners, citing reports from local activists about law enforcement visits ramping up before next month’s Republican National Convention.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 27, 2016 09:56 UTC