Law Enforcement Seizes Masks Meant To Protect Anti-Racist Protesters From COVID-19

[LiberalArkie]

WASHINGTON ― Law enforcement agents have seized hundreds of cloth masks that read “Stop killing Black people” and “Defund police” that a Black Lives Matter-affiliated organization sent to cities around the country to protect demonstrators against the spread of COVID-19, a disease that has had a disparate impact on Black communities.

The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) spent tens of thousands of dollars on the masks they had planned to send all over the country. The first four boxes, each containing 500 masks, were mailed from Oakland, California, and were destined for Washington, St. Louis, New York City and Minneapolis, where on May 25 a white police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old handcuffed Black man, setting off a wave of protests across the country.

But the items never left the state. The U.S. Postal Service tracking numbers for the packages indicate they were “Seized by Law Enforcement” and urge the mailer to “contact the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for further information.”

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

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[allnews]

1. Here we go again

They are obsessed with snatching any PPE. We deserve to know under whose authority this happened.

[LisaL]

4. Somebody must be watching the guy who shipped these masks.

Otherwise, how would anyone know he was shipping masks? The masks are not PPE suitable for hospitals since they are cloth masks.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. They are searching BLM mail, possibly without a warrant.

[Alacritous Crier]

13. Shades of...

COINTELPRO.

[Volaris]

19. Ya how the fuck is it legal for local law enforcement,

to screw around with the proper functioning of A FEDERAL AGENCY, without someone dropping a really painful hammer on them?

I get that trump n Barr could care less. But the post office is a constitutionally mandated entity; that's akin to the LA Police deciding of their own volition to go and fuck around with a navy warship at dock cause one of the sailors might have started a bar fight on leave wtf smdh...

[barbtries]

16. yep.

probably hacking his computer and knew they were ordered the second it happened. fucking police state.

[magicarpet]

2. Putin-esque

[Mariana]

3. The cops are looting. nt.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. How is this contraband that the postal service has any business seizing without a warrant.

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. That's my question.

There is absolutely no legitimate reason these shipments should have been interfered with in any way.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Agreed!

[SkyDaddy7]

14. Its that new...

Trump Lackey in charge of the Postal Service...That was just put in charge. Forgot his name.

EDIT: Thats MY GUESS!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. How would they even know what was inside?

Could USPS X-ray scanners determine they were masks, let alone what was printed on them?

The guy who sent them said his post office knows that he frequently ships apparel all over the country. How did that particular package get their attention?

[LiberalArkie]

10. I would bet the shipping label name and address tripped an FBI alarm

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Yeah, that probably explains it.

Thanks.

It's still ridiculous, obviously.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. I Don't See How

Xrays go through cardboard but not cloth? And they definitely would go through 2 thousandths of an inch of silk screen ink.
They had to be targeting M4BL.

[In_The_Wind]

12. Totally outrageous. There is nothing illegal with these shipments.

[spike jones]

17. BLM will be declared a terrorist group to justify it.

[mountain grammy]

18. Wow..things are going downhill fast.