{"id":337460,"date":"2017-12-01T19:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brooklyn-college-students-oppose-nypd-spying-on-campus\/"},"modified":"2017-12-01T19:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T18:12:34","slug":"brooklyn-college-students-oppose-nypd-spying-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/brooklyn-college-students-oppose-nypd-spying-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn College students oppose NYPD spying on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Brooklyn College students oppose NYPD spying on campus<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Josh Varlin<br \/>\n    <br \/>1 December 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Students at Brooklyn College, one of the four-year colleges in the City University of New York system, expressed opposition to police activity on campus after a screening of <em>Watched<\/em>, a documentary on surveillance of Muslim students at BC by the New York City Police Department.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watched<\/em>, which was first shown at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, details how the New York Police Department spied on BC Muslim students for four years\u20142011-2015. The NYPD sent \u201cMel\u201d as an undercover informant, who became very close to students in the BC Muslim Student Association.<\/p>\n<p>At an MSA-organized event like other \u201cAsk a Muslim\u201d events\u2014where students can ask their Muslim peers questions about Islam in an open and collegial way\u2014Mel took a declaration of Muslim faith.<\/p>\n<p>Over the ensuing years, she ingratiated herself into the lives of BC students active in the MSA, even attending some of their weddings.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Muslim BC student interviewed in <em>Watched<\/em>, Mel, unlike almost every other convert to a new religion, asked essentially no questions about how best to practice her new faith. Her first question, a year and a half in, was about suicide bombing.<\/p>\n<p>This years-long, extensive surveillance of BC students has produced a chilling effect on campus, with many students concerned that similar police spying may resume\u2014or may be continuing uninterrupted. According to the <em>Excelsior<\/em>, BC\u2019s student newspaper, a student asked at the screening if \u201cthere could be an informant in this room,\u201d to which the panelists simultaneously answered, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two students attributed the recent inactivity of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club to police surveillance and BC&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/12\/01\/nypd-d01.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Brooklyn College students oppose NYPD spying on campus By Josh Varlin 1 December 2017 Students at Brooklyn College, one of the four-year colleges in the City University of New York system, expressed opposition to police activity on campus after a screening of Watched, a documentary on surveillance of Muslim students at BC by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}