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‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone (www.404media.co)

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The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people,” he said.

Just another example of the Trump admin trying to intimidate protestors using whatever the fuck they can to bring up whatever charges they can.

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[–] Dryad@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which would still be unreasonable search and seizure.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They were not in the United States and the constitution doesn’t apply at border searches. Their argument is going to be limited to very few things, like “I didn’t destroy anything, the cbp officer did”

[–] Dryad@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

He was in fact in the US when this happened. Also he alleges he wasn’t read his Miranda rights, and there’s a good case for presumption of guilt from the “officers.” Also denied him having a lawyer present before engaging.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 22 hours ago

They were not in the United States

Thus the officer has no rights to confiscate. There, done.

[–] justgohomealready@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they were not in the United States so that the constitution doesn't apply, why would the other US laws apply? Makes no sense.

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"You see these guns? That's how" - the fascist bootheels at the border