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In a filing, prosecutors have said that they are currently extracting data from locked phones seized from over 100 alleged rioters:
In new filings, prosecutors told a court in Washington, DC that within the coming weeks, they expect to extract all data from the seized cellphones of more than 100 allegedly violent protesters arrested during the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Prosecutors also said that this search is validated by recently issued warrants. [...] "All of the Rioter Cell Phones were locked, which requires more time-sensitive efforts to try to obtain the data," Jennifer Kerkhoff, an assistant United States attorney, wrote.
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Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @03:41PM
Destroying property and attacking people is not "protest", it's criminal behavior. Anybody who does or encourages this, for whatever the reason, ought be punished to the fullest extent possible under the law. Like I mentioned elsewhere the only question is whether these individuals were genuine idiots or useful idiots. And unfortunately I'm expecting it was probably the former.
It seems to me that many people don't really understand how their actions are seen and I think social media echo chambers are to blame for this. They view their reactions in terms of their social media circles which are, in most cases, complete echo chambers. And that is completely counter productive. These sort of actions ought drive empathy and support from people who do not necessarily already support you. In this case it's quite the opposite. With the increasing extremism, intolerance, and regularity of violence in these protests - I think most individuals are being driven squarely in the opposite direction.