“This was one of many worst moments of my life,” stated Jacqueline “Jax” Armendariz Unzueta, who’s suing the companies.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has sued the FBI, the Colorado Springs Police Division and native officers for illegally spying on native activist Jacqueline “Jax” Armendariz Unzueta and the Chinook Heart, a group organizing hub in Colorado Springs. “This was one of many worst moments of my life,” says Unzueta, who describes the investigation by regulation enforcement as “extremely invasive.” The lawsuit accuses the companies of “unconstitutional and invasive search and seizure of the telephones, computer systems, gadgets, and personal chats of individuals and teams whose message the Colorado Springs Police Division dislikes.” This comes after revelations the FBI had infiltrated the Chinook Heart by sending an undercover police detective named April Rogers to volunteer on the heart in 2020, first uncovered by the investigative reporter Trevor Aaronson, who writes for The Intercept and created the Alphabet Boys podcast. “For greater than a 12 months, she was undercover for the FBI,” says Aaronson, who experiences the officer, who used the identify Chelsie, surveilled the Chinook Heart and unsuccessfully tried to entrap native activists in gun-running conspiracies. This was a part of a broader FBI effort to infiltrate racial justice and left-wing teams in Colorado after the police killing of George Floyd.
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