Once a lawyer is involved the FBI and police usually pull back since they have lost their power to intimidate. If you are contacted by the FBI or police, take notes and keep careful records of what they said and did. Tell others they contacted you. Further, if an activist does talk, or makes some honest error, explain the serious harm that could result. Be firm, but do not ostracize a sincere person who slips up.
Isolation only weakens a person's ability to resist pressure.
If the FBI or other government agents start to harass people in your area or community, alert everyone to refuse to cooperate. Warn your friends, neighbors, parents, children, and anyone else who might be contacted. Make sure people know what to do and where to call for help. Again, our point here is simply to let friends, supporters and members of the social justice community know about this recent incident. We do not want to engender any paranoia, but we do want to help prepare anyone who might be contacted.