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A former FBI supervisor, Jill Fields, says the Trump administration pressured the FBI to investigate peaceful protesters in Los Angeles who were speaking out against immigration enforcement, even though their actions were protected by the First Amendment. She claims top officials pushed these investigations to please the president, pulling agents from serious crime cases to make a show of cracking down on dissent. The Justice Department dismissed the claims as political, but the whistleblower is calling for an investigation into whether constitutional rights were violated.