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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: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @06:50PM
There *was* some organization going on. Look no further than the signs they have. Hell the 'hats' they all wore. The planes of people getting paid to fly there. Just drop them all together like you said and get them going. Then there are paid agitators. They exist. There are DNC people who are on tape saying as much. The money and scope is not 'grass roots'. Even before the election there were many craigslist ads on joining in on these things. The going rate seems to be about 1500 a week and lodging for the higher up ones. So put a bunch of pissed off people together get them going and hope for 'the best'.
Even the 'spontaneous' protest for the new SCOTUS judge. They announced it and suddenly with in a few mins there were printed signs. That took organization that was in no way spontaneous. They pre-printed the possibles just so they could protest. This is not some dude with a stick, tape, paper, and a marker.
What is even more amazing to me is that the current president is probably the most flexible one we have had in a long time. He loves to make deals. If you are there to muck things up he ignores you. If you are there to cut a deal and make things better he will hear you out. Even the healthcare bill he basically forced it to fail because he knew it was crap. He has now forced the R's and D's to come up with something before AHA eats itself with the implications 'better be better'.