The east Los Angeles neighborhood news site Eastsider coverage 7/19/2019 begins:
Echo Park — The Echo Park United Methodist Church has long been a center for liberal causes, activists and gatherings. That included several meetings in 2017 by a left-wing group that was involved in planning large anti-Trump protests nationwide.
It turns out that one of the persons who attended those meetings was an LAPD informant who secretly recorded the gatherings and passed along the intel to the department, says the L.A. Times.
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“I certainly have concerns about it,” Pastor Frank Wulf told the Times about the LAPD’s actions. “I can’t speak for the church body, but it does seem that it is an interference in our right to use our church building in a way we see fit … it does have a chilling effect on people who, according to the constitution, have a right to protest.”
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