<story><title>FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, documents show</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>doodlebugging</author><text>According to the article they have surveillance camera video showing the incident. That should be time-stamped with a reasonably accurate time and their physical location should be determinable with good accuracy from the video alone.&lt;p&gt;I do not see why the warrant requests data over such a long time frame. It seems likely to me that you could identify the perps from the mobile phone records by simply limiting the warrant request to 5 minutes before and 10 minutes after the event. There will be less data to sift through and the longer window after the event will allow you to track them to a vehicle or a nearby residence, etc. If the perps were carrying phones then they should be identifiable.&lt;p&gt;This warrant is overly broad and will pull innocent people into the investigation including people who may not have been participants but who may have only been in the neighborhood while it was happening and just decided to stop and take a few pictures to pass on to people in their social circles. (Social media cancer sufferers unite!).&lt;p&gt;A crime was committed and it is right to make an effort to locate and prosecute those responsible so that society has an opportunity to hold people accountable for their actions.&lt;p&gt;Once you dig into this you find another situation where it is true that if event A had never happened, then the likelihood of event B occurring is near zero. This event is the event B and in order for justice to be served, those who were involved in event A need to be held accountable. Committing crimes in an attempt to force accountability will not improve the situation for anyone and will likely only result in someone who would otherwise have enjoyed a happy, productive life being locked up for a crime of passion that should never have happened (event B).&lt;p&gt;We need technology that erodes the thin blue line serving as a refuge for cowards seeking to escape accountability for their crimes. Molotov cocktails chunked at a police station will never be that technology. I don&amp;#x27;t know what it looks like but there are some smart people on this forum who may have useful ideas to promote.</text></comment>
<story><title>FBI used geofence warrant in Seattle after BLM protest attack, documents show</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/5/22918487/fbi-geofence-seattle-blm-protest-police-guild-attack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>batch12</author><text>This article has some concerning practices, but I can&amp;#x27;t help but see it as anything other than ragebait.</text></comment>