The three main groups involved in this story are The Occupy Movement, the FBI and the Houston Police Department.

-October 2011, The Occupy Movement comes into Texas. Houston, Dallas and Austin were the three main cities use. Police officials are all on high alert, more so than most of the other cities the Occupy Movement have visited. What we know is that police responded to the movement with violent assaults, local and federal surveillance on "leaders" and infiltration by police provocateurs. Between the three cities these actions occurred by local police, with Austin police infiltrating and supplying the Occupy Movement with felony instruments used to lock protesters together.

-December 2012, The Civil Justice Fund requested and received 99 pages from the FBI. The pages were heavily redacted and almost another 300 more were withheld. Pages in these alluded to a sniper plot against leaders of the Occupy Movement.

-Early 2013, Ryan Shapiro saw mention of the plot and filed another Freedom of Information Act request for more information on the Occupy Movement in Houston, any other Occupy like movements in Houston and police responses.

-The FBI said it identified 17 pages that fell under Shapiro's request. They only released 5 pages, all of which were heavily redacted. Shapiro took legal action against the FBI. In these new pages the name, or names, are redacted multiple times through the file, leaving no trace to who, or whom, started the plot. Many theories have been proposed due to the wording in the pages.

-2014, During the court case the FBI maintain the redacted files are for privacy law reasons, a judge ordered a more in depth explanation as to why the files are being redacted. The rest of the 17 pages were released also redacted. Eventually the judge dismissed the charges after reviewing the documents in her chambers. Freedom of Information Act exception 7(c), which shields law enforcement records from being released if they are an invasion or privacy. Exception 7(d) was introduced to the case by the judge, which allows records to be withheld if they could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source.

Shapiro said he will not give up until the full pages are released. 



http://www.mintpressnews.com/details-assassination-plot-occupy-movement-leaders-withheld-public-fbis-behest/202064/

http://www.chron.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-FBI-and-protesters-then-and-now-4203970.php

https://news.vice.com/article/the-fbi-is-hiding-details-about-an-alleged-occupy-houston-assassination-plot