Darren Seals Jr. (May 15, 1987 – September 6, 2016) was an American racial justice, anti-police brutality, and anti-gun violence activist from Ferguson, Missouri[1][2][3] who worked on the assembly line at General Motors.
[citation needed] After voting for Barack Obama, Seals became a critic of what he saw as the President's insufficient action on many issues including police violence and racial profiling.
He used Twitter as a public platform to call out the organization for taking in millions in donations from billionaire sponsor George Soros, and giving nothing back to the Ferguson community where they held protests against the police killing of Michael Brown.
[14] Seals's disapproval was founded in Ferguson's local activist sentiment that the organization hijacked their movement, publicizing it on social media as their own, motivated by personal, political, and financial benefit.
[15] In 2022, Riverfront Times published records obtained by activist James Cooper in which the FBI referred to Seals as a "revolutionary who has espoused somewhat militant rhetoric and has access to weapons."