BOSTON – Grants amounting nearly $2.7 million awarded to the Boston Police Department are under the microscope amid nationwide protests against racism and police brutality.

City councilors scrutinized two state department grants and one federal grant Thursday, funding anti-gang, anti-crime and anti-terrorism interventions administered by police department.

One of these grants, worth $850,000, is earmarked for the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, the police department’s anti-terrorism unit, whose data can be accessed by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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