This is exactly my point. Yes, COINTELPRO was really bad. But it was intelligence and disruption, they weren't executing people on the street and then bragging about how they'd get away with it. Do you not see the difference?

COINTELPRO included assassinations. They kind of didn't stop there either.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170201130225/http://www.nytime...

They drugged and executed Fred Hampton and no one suffered any consequences for that as far as I know.