I'd say it looks anemic even if you're a middle class, middle aged white male. It's weaker if you're young, or black, or brown, or female. It's damn near dead if you're a young black male or appear vaguely Arabic.

True, but if there's anything today on the scale and invasiveness of COINTELPRO, it's not public knowledge.

Good thing we leave officers to rely on their intuitions, their biases, and secondhand accounts, instead of video evidence.