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Judi Lynn

(160,451 posts)
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:41 PM Mar 2018

Woman who went undercover in Trump inauguration protest to testify

Source: The Hill


BY JOSH DELK - 03/06/18 03:30 PM EST

Federal prosecutors plan to call a woman who was undercover in an anarchist "black bloc" protest during January 2017 protests against President Trump's inauguration to testify in the next round of criminal trials for alleged riot participants, BuzzFeed News reports.

Court papers filed this month by prosecutors say that the woman, who's known by the alias "Julie McMahon," will testify in the March 26 trial. It's unclear who McMahon was working for while she was undercover.

The trial is the latest round of charges against defendants accused of Inauguration Day rioting, with five defendants facing charges related to property damage.

McMahon, who previously spent years undercover in "an anarchist extremist group" in New York, will testify to the court on the "black bloc" tactic, a strategy that city police believe many of the 200 people arrested for rioting employed to avoid identification as they engaged in violence and destruction during the protests.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/377004-woman-undercover-in-trump-inauguration-black-bloc-riots-to-testify

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Woman who went undercover in Trump inauguration protest to testify (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2018 OP
Another Breitbart groupie? Lindsay Mar 2018 #1
Who paid her?!!! Where did the money come from?!!! Did it come from Republicans? NCjack Mar 2018 #2
"It's unclear who McMahon was working for while she was undercover. " IronLionZion Mar 2018 #3

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
2. Who paid her?!!! Where did the money come from?!!! Did it come from Republicans?
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 08:44 PM
Mar 2018

If the money came from Republicans, then she is biased, and not a word she says can be taken as truth. (Isn't this how the game is played?)

IronLionZion

(45,380 posts)
3. "It's unclear who McMahon was working for while she was undercover. "
Tue Mar 6, 2018, 10:34 PM
Mar 2018

So that means it's probably not a law enforcement agency. Since that undercover operation would have ended a year ago when they made the arrests and there would be no reason to hide her employer.

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