News has surfaced confirming that the FBI used one of its most advanced spy planes to monitor recent Black Lives Matter protests specifically in Washington D.C. earlier this month, according to Buzzfeed.

Buzzfeed reports that on June 1, the Agency deployed a Cessna Citation jet from Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia to surveil the protests happening in D.C. 

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The plane is usually used on top surveillance missions, including federal drug and gang busts.

"It's now been well documented that a number of federal agencies wildly overreacted to protests in D.C. in deeply troubling ways," Nathan Freed Wessler, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology, told Buzzfeed.

"To learn that the FBI deployed its state-of-the-art surveillance plane to watch these historic protests raises additional troubling questions."

The FBI declined to answer specific questions about the evidence collected by the plane and/or whether it conducted any forms of surveillance other than video monitoring.