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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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(Score: 2) by schad on Sunday March 26 2017, @06:11PM (5 children)
I think the point he's making is just that the violent protesters were more likely to have been organized. Not necessarily that they had the intent to discredit the entire protest.
I think that's probably backwards, though. I know a lot of people who became unhinged at Trump's election. Very strongly. Many of them genuinely believed that the literal end of civilization was going to happen in the first few weeks of Trump's presidency. Get a bunch of people like that all in the same area... you need organization not to get riots. Mob mentality is a very real thing.
Honestly, I'm amazed that Trump hasn't been assassinated yet. The level of hate is astonishing. I think the only thing keeping him alive is that people are more afraid of Pence than they are of Trump. Better an incompetent madman than a competent devil, I guess.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Sunday March 26 2017, @07:00PM
As someone who was very recently involved with political movements, which is what it is - if you know a person who is genuinely angry, then you know a person whose anger has been genuinely compromised by his/her favorite political movement - the organization is real. Believe me, 10 people can be passionate about having a beer party on a weekend but it is almost impossible for 10 people to get together on a weekend without a person taking charge of planning. So there is always planning. Secondly, it is impossible to not know that, with emotions running that high, and with all the recent data pointing to masked hooliganism and property damage/rioting, that something unsavory won't happen! If you actually look at the videos of riots, you will find tacit support of the violent elements in the protest. The violence happens, and suddenly the masked asshole vanishes behind a crowd and the crowd openly claims nothing happened.
Now on to the topic at hand, I am personally torn between a well policed state and an unpoliced state. Let us see what they find. I am very sure there is nothing stopping the state in putting down its foot, the left has worked very hard to make that sure.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday March 26 2017, @08:36PM (3 children)
The sort of people who would assassinate a president are the same sort of people who voted for him. He's relatively safe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 26 2017, @09:58PM
Anything can happen. Remember that time John McCain went to Starbucks? [latimes.com]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 26 2017, @10:13PM (1 child)
WeatherSo, you are claiming that only republicans and conservatives resort to violence? Surely you jest. Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army? (Oh, my bad - the official story is, she was kidnapped, and forced to wave a gun around, blah blah blah) The Unabomber? Bill Ayers? Ancient history, you say? How about this story - https://medium.com/@trentlapinski/the-berkeley-riots-were-a-cowardly-act-of-domestic-terrorism-2bcafbb32ff0 [medium.com]
If you try, you can probably make a case that conservatives are statistically more likely to resort to violence than progressives and liberals. But, the problem is, the corrupt media won't give you the stories when the stories embarrass the liberal movement.
ICE is having a Pretti Good season.
(Score: 2) by jmorris on Monday March 27 2017, @01:54AM
If you try, you can probably make a case that conservatives are statistically more likely to resort to violence than progressives and liberals.
Only if you lie, but since that is the core of Progressivism I suppose it is easy enough for them. Conservatives are too fixated on the Rule of Law, even now as they can clearly see the other side is utterly lawless. "We can't descend to their level, that isn't who we are" they cuck as the other side boycotts their businesses, doxes and disemploys them, even beats them up on the street. The Left ARE the power in this country and they are lawless, obeying only the Will to Power yet a Conservative would rather die than even think of any measure beyond voting. Hence their rapid ongoing replacement by the Alt-Right. Right now they are contenting themselves with making a hero out of one guy with a stick who whacked some Antifa. It won't stop there unless the Left is willing to deescalate, and pretty soon.
Now before somebody does something stupid and trys to rebut my assertion that the Left in the U.S. is far more lawless and violent, read This history [status451.com] of the violence of the Left that their media operations have shoved into the memory hole. All documented in the media of the day, and utterly unknown in a modern history book and never mentioned now. That is why I say the Left are the uncontested power today, they control the present and thus they control the past and if they are not stopped will control the future... until reality asserts itself in the total destruction their ideas always lead to.