Brooklyn College’s Faculty Council has unanimously passed a resolution condemning the New York Police Department for reportedly infiltrating Muslim student groups to spy on their members, according to the Associated Press. The resolution was proposed in response to an Associated Press investigation that concluded that the police department, as part of an intelligence-gathering operation developed with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency, had placed undercover agents in the Muslim student associations at Brooklyn College and Baruch College, both City University of New York campuses, and had viewed Muslim groups at other colleges in the city as being of interest. As reprinted in the blog NYPD Confidential, the resolution said the police operation threatened to chill academic freedom and may have violated students’ legal rights.
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