When masked agents in plainclothes and tactical gear roam American cities, and troops are deployed based on trumped up fears of crime and disorder, this story takes the form of an ominous precursor.
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This investigation spans multiple decades and continents, from protests, civil trials and gun shops in Minneapolis, to an internal Army investigation into one of the most notorious firms that set up shop after the Iraq war was privatized.

He was hired by a mall to evict a memorial garden and protest encampment that arose after police killed a Black man named Winston Smith in the mall’s garage. Seabrook imported a mindset from a warzone, and likened protesters to insurgents.

Seabrook founded Conflict Resolution Group in response to the Minneapolis uprising of 2020. He marketed his security firm as uniquely suited for a new landscape, where the skills he acquired from conflict zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya were needed in the homeland.