[kbenson]

Keighley, however, later admitted the FBI had no evidence of Balogun making any specific threats about harming police.

That's the next sentence. It's not about why they were looking at him, it's about why they arrested him, and kept him detained.

“Sometimes when you couldn’t prove somebody was a terrorist, it’s because they weren’t a terrorist,” he said, adding that prosecutors’ argument that Balogun was too dangerous to be released on bail was “astonishing”.

“It seems this effort was designed to punish him for his political activity rather than actually solve any sort of security issue.”

I'm not sure how this wasn't dismissed fairly quickly as an infringement of his first amendment rights.

[logfromblammo]

"You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride."

This was extrajudicial punishment for expressing anti-police sentiments. They were able to take away his freedom, job, home, vehicle, and family, without even going to trial. By the time the prosecution was forced to drop the case for lack of evidence, their mission had already been accomplished.

They abused the justice system to punish prior to conviction, all based on their perception of his unforgivable blackness.