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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 26 2017, @12:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-luck-with-that dept.

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.

Also at BuzzFeed, CNET, and The Verge.


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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday March 27 2017, @02:46AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday March 27 2017, @02:46AM (#484506)

    There is some organization of some protesters, but in more than a few cases the violent aspects of the protest were organized not by any protest organization but by the police. This well known agent provocateur tactic has been around since at least the 1960's: the idea is to put a few undercover cop in the crowd of protesters, have the cops throw rocks or something, and then the the uniformed cops can now legally move in to attack and/or arrest any protesters nearby. As an added bonus, the news story now becomes "police stopped a violent protest and arrested 5,000 troublemakers", not "an estimated 100,000 people were on the streets today demanding _______".

    There is also the substantial problem in this case of several journalists and random bystanders being arrested and having their phones confiscated for the heinous crime of standing on the sidewalk filming and reporting near where other people were allegedly committing crimes.

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