Thousands petition White House to consider ‘Cop Block’ a terrorist group

Police accountability has been enjoying surprising strides in recent times through the efforts of online activism and social media. That success has been followed by a number of spiteful statists working to undermine those efforts.
One of the largest groups, Cop Block (has received particular amounts of negative attention. Earlier this summer, the activists from the group was featured prominently on Fox News and mocked for filming police officers during traffic stops.
This week, anti-accountability agents have created an online White House petition to ask President Obama to ‘Officially label and classify any variation of ‘CopBlock. Org’ members as Domestic Terrorists with DHS.’

This post was published at Police State USA on September 22, 2014.