“We’re preparing those soldiers and airmen to leave the Twin Cities metro area and head back to their locations.” “We are already starting to maneuver, move people off of property protection details,” Major General Shawn Manke of the Minnesota National Guard said at the time. At that time, officials told the public that the program was “ramping down,” apart from weekly coordination meetings and preparations for future trials. OSN hasn’t tweeted, posted on Facebook, or held a press conference since the week Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict was issued in April 2021. At a press conference also attended by Hennepin County sheriff David Hutchinson, Medaria Arradondo, then Minneapolis’s police chief, described the effort as a unified command that would enable law enforcement officials to mount a regional response in case protests turned violent.
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Operation Safety Net (OSN) was announced in February 2021, a month before Chauvin’s trial was set to begin. We found evidence of a complex engine of surveillance tailor-made for keeping close tabs on protesters and sharing that information among local and federal agencies, regardless of whether the subjects were suspected of any wrongdoing. Though it was undertaken by nonmilitary governmental agencies using public funds, large swaths of its inner workings have gone undisclosed. Taken together, they paint a picture of a state operation intent on identifying participants through secretive surveillance operations. MIT Technology Review’s investigation includes thousands of documents and more than two dozen interviews with Minnesota state employees, policing experts, and activists.
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