The NYPD confirmed its involvement in an FBI investigation that included surveillance of a private Signal chat of volunteer courtwatchers monitoring ICE activity inside New York City’s immigration courthouses.
An NYPD spokesperson told THE CITY on Friday that surveillance of the Signal chat was part of a “broader counterterrorism investigation” into “a range of possible criminal activities.”
The revelation came in a declassified FBI memo obtained by Property of the People, a nonprofit that seeks national security related documents through Freedom of Information Act Requests, and first reported on by The Guardian…