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November 04, 2009, 05:59 PM ET
Police Apologize After Monitoring Cal State-Northridge Student Group
Officials at the Los Angeles Police Department apologized to a student group at California State University at Northridge after they acknowledged that police officers had conducted unauthorized surveillance of the group's activities on the campus in September, according to the student newspaper, the Daily Sundial.
Members of the group, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, told the paper that they had noticed a group of older men dressed as students observing them and conducting suspicious exercises during their first meeting of the semester. They said they felt the police had made them targets of surveillance because they were members of a minority group.
A deputy chief of the police department, Michel Moore, told the paper that the officers involved were being trained on how to monitor people in public spaces by an outside contractor. The officers did not disclose the exercise to their superiors, and the department is investigating the incident, he said.
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1. 22228715 - November 05, 2009 at 08:14 am
Yeah, right, newbies. What the supervisor mean was, I sure HOPE they were novice trainees if their undercover work was so obviously fake that a group of undergraduates focused on other other things were able to spot them from a mile away.
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