cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/67529
The Department of Justice is trying to prosecute a man allegedly involved in the movement against Atlanta’s Cop City for using a “duress” password on his smartphone that reportedly wiped its contents, in a seemingly unprecedented line of prosecution as the Trump administration expands its methods of criminalizing those with left-wing beliefs. According to The Guardian, the defendant…
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He was in an Atlanta airport, though, over a thousand miles from the border.
Ahh but don’t you see everything is the border.
I know they have jurisdiction anywhere within a hundred miles of the border, I think, and also at airports.
Not airports. https://www.aclumaine.org/know-your-rights/100-mile-border-zone/