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Yeah but a ton of people livestreamed themselves during the June protests + riots + looting + etc, and there were absolutely privacy objections to doing dragnet
by bpodgursky 6y ago
Yeah but a ton of people livestreamed themselves during the June protests + riots + looting + etc, and there were absolutely privacy objections to doing dragnets + facial recognition over the videos they posted on on Twitter (AFAIK very little was actually done to identify and arrest the bad actors, by the percentages).
- grogenaut 6y agoa cursory search says you are incorrect... looters, rioters arrested (from one event I looked for): https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/bellevue-police-update-on-looting/281-3c682ae1-ce3e-48aa-bd1a-6fcbf1858a74 https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/bellevue-police-upd... rioters arrested (Weeks later, there was a knock at the door of Little’s Everett apartment when police came to arrest his 25-year-old son and search the family’s apartment): https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/analysis-of-seattle-protester-arrests/281-908cad06-29be-408a-9093-3f45941bc039 https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/analysis-o... sometimes the DA decides not to prosecute, or defer for misdemeanors: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/dozens-protesters-arrested-by-seattle-police-may-never-be-prosecuted/TQMXRMHYXBFZ5KZVTMEDU2S4IE/ https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/dozens-protesters-arrested-... you don't arrest legal protesters, that's you know legal. You do arrest, or defer (in the city that had the infamous CHAZ/CHOP) arrest people breaking the law.