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How an FBI Informant Derailed Denver’s BLM Movement<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Wikimedia Commons/YouTube</p> <p>An outlandish guerrilla militant who drove a silver Hearse to Denver-area <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-iconic-moments-from-the-summer-of-black-lives-matter-protests-will-go-down-in-history">Black Lives Matter protests</a> in 2020 was secretly a federal informant with a sex crime conviction, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alphabet-boys/id1668980612">a new podcast reveals</a>.</p> <p>The informant, Mickey Windecker, pushed an activist to buy a gun for him, resulting in the activist’s guilty plea on weapons charges. Other Denver-area activists accuse Windecker of inflaming otherwise-peaceful demonstrations, encouraging people to break windows, and leading marches directly into police traps. Windecker’s informant status was first reported this week on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alphabet-boys/id1668980612">the podcast Alphabet Boys,</a> which explores Windecker’s case and FBI involvement in the Colorado protests.</p> <p>The Alphabet Boys podcast shared some of its documents, including recordings and an FBI summary report, with The Daily Beast, which corroborated those documents through court records and with other Colorado activists who’d encountered Windecker.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-fbi-informant-derailed-denvers-blm-movement?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p> <p>Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tips">here</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Wikimedia Commons/YouTube

An outlandish guerrilla militant who drove a silver Hearse to Denver-area Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 was secretly a federal informant with a sex crime conviction, a new podcast reveals.

The informant, Mickey Windecker, pushed an activist to buy a gun for him, resulting in the activist’s guilty plea on weapons charges. Other Denver-area activists accuse Windecker of inflaming otherwise-peaceful demonstrations, encouraging people to break windows, and leading marches directly into police traps. Windecker’s informant status was first reported this week on the podcast Alphabet Boys, which explores Windecker’s case and FBI involvement in the Colorado protests.

The Alphabet Boys podcast shared some of its documents, including recordings and an FBI summary report, with The Daily Beast, which corroborated those documents through court records and with other Colorado activists who’d encountered Windecker.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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