The Oregon DOJ Looked Into People Who Tweeted #BlackLivesMatter

Portland Mercury:

At least one criminal investigator with the Oregon Department of Justice began looking into Oregonians who used the hashtag #blacklivesmatter on Twitter at some point in the last year. Now, a host of civil rights, labor and civil liberty groups are calling for an independent audit of the department, and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum claims she's "outraged" and is agreeing that the practice amounts to "profiling."

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