The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

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The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a " duress password " that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport on January 24th, 2025. Federal agents detained Tunick at the airport, allegedly questioning him about child exploita
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The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a " duress password " that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport on January 24th, 2025.
Federal agents detained Tunick at the airport, allegedly questioning him about child exploitation images.
However, a motion filed by Tunick's lawyers argues this was simply "a pretext for a fishing expedition into Mr Tunick's connections" to the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta.
The government is turning to a little-known and rarely used statute that makes it illegal to destroy or damage property to stop authorities fr … Read the full story at The Verge.
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