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Movement Ink, a small family-owned printing company in Oakland, said that U.S. postal inspectors seized thousands of face masks they produced that were intended for protesters. The cloth masks, emblazoned with the words "Stop killing black people" and the logo for the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), were being shipped to Washington D.C., St. Louis, New York City and Minneapolis.In an , Movement Ink said that they "are angry, concerned and feel threatened by the situation. Our family and a few community members have sacrificed sleep to support the Movement for Black Lives and we are committed to do so moving forward.”According to , the U.S. Postal Service tracking numbers for the packages of masks they shipped out say they were “seized by law enforcement." On Friday, the boxes of masks were released by federal agents, two days after they were initially shipped.In a statement to Huffpost, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service said,&nbsp;“These packages were originally set aside for further investigation because there were indications that they contained non-mailable matter. Once Postal Inspectors confirmed the contents of the packages were in fact mailable, they were immediately placed back in the mail stream to be delivered at their intended destinations without further delay.”The Movement for Black Lives reportedly spent tens of thousands of dollars on these masks intended for protecting protesters from COVID-19 —&nbsp; a disease that has disproportionately impacted black communities.The Movement for Black Lives is a group that first formed in 2014 after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and now is made up of more than 150 organizations including the Black Lives Matter Network, the National Conference of Black Lawyers and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.MORE COVERAGE ON THE GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS:Sign up for 'The Daily' newsletter for the latest on Bay Area protest coverage&nbsp;.Madeline Wells is an SFGATE associate digital reporter. Email: madeline.wells@sfgate.com | Twitter: @madwells22

Movement Ink, a small family-owned printing company in Oakland, said that U.S. postal inspectors seized thousands of face masks they produced that were intended for protesters. The cloth masks, emblazoned with the words "Stop killing black people" and the logo for the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), were being shipped to Washington D.C., St. Louis, New York City and Minneapolis.In an , Movement Ink said that they "are angry, concerned and feel threatened by the situation. Our family and a few community members have sacrificed sleep to support the Movement for Black Lives and we are...

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