FBI And DHS Intimidating Protesters (Again)

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:48:25 -0500

I've got a copy of an indictment that we all need to talk about! "Cop City" is a $118 million 85-acre police training facility built in Atlanta. They bulldozed a forest to create it in the middle of a Black community. Cop City wasn't wanted and it wasn't needed, so there were large groups of protesters who did everything they could to stop it because the government didn't care about their petitions or concerns. Police shot dead a peaceful protester while in his tent, and in 2023 Georgia filed RICO charges against 61 activists and even said the bail funds were part of a racketeering operation. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr called the protestors "domestic terrorists and violent criminals." All of those ridiculous RICO charges eventually got dismissed.

Samuel Tunick is an Atlanta musician and a Cop City activist. He recently visited a foreign country, and before he came back to the USA he wiped clean his Pixel cell phone. When he got to the airport in January to re-enter the US, CBP agents detained him and tried to force him to give them full access to his phone. They couldn't find what they were looking for, so he was released.

On December 2nd, Tunick was pulled over in Atlanta where he was asked to step out of his car because of an issue with his taillight. He was at that point arrested by DHS and FBI. After his first night in jail, he learned during his court appearance that they had obtained an indictment from a federal grand jury. He was charged with one count of destruction of evidence because he had wiped his phone.

This is a baseless case that must not stand! The government is still clearly trying to intimidate protesters through these ridiculous bogus prosecutions. Many people carry "burner" phones when they cross international borders because of the repressive laws in other countries. It seems now that the USA has become one of those repressive countries.

The Indictment reads: "On or about January 24, 2025, in the Northern District of Georgia, the defendant, SAMUEL TUNICK, before and during the search for and seizure of property by Customs and Border Patrol Tactical Terrorism Response Team Supervisory Officer L.C., a person authorized to make such search and seizure, did knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone, for the purpose of preventing and impairing the Government's lawful authority to take said property into its custody and control, in violation of Title 18, Untied States Code, Section 2232(a)."

I'll be following this case closely as it progresses through the court system and I'll post updates as I get them. There isn't much on the court docket yet, but here's a link to it: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71998357/united-states-v-tunick/

Sam is out of jail on bond, but now he is subject to random visits from parole officers and drug tests. I'm hoping a rights group will take this case on pro bono publico, but for now he is still trying to raise $20K for his legal fees to fight this case, so if you're able to contribute here is a link to his GiveSendGo account.

ICE's Biggest Fear Is Transparency

CleverNews.Net — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:30:06 -0500

They aren't rounding up "the worst of the worst" they are going after the easiest, most vulnerable targets, and they're bypassing the law to do it. Trump's goal was to deport 5,000 per day and thank god they are nowhere near reaching that goal. The arrest records show that the overwhelming majority of those being detained are not criminals. Those claimed to have "criminal records" mostly have minor things like traffic violations. Even if you paint those people as "criminals" they are far from being gang leaders or "the worst of the worst."

What they have succeeded in doing is terrorizing our communities by carrying out raids with violent heavily-armed masked Gestapo thugs with no police training. When SCOTUS allowed racial profiling through "Kavanaugh Stops" that's exactly the method they used. They're trying to detain as many people as possible in order to reach their mission quotas, the laws be damned. They don't want the public to know what the real arrest numbers and criminal statistics are because it points to their abject mission failure despite all of their bluster and propaganda.

Our greatest weapon against these domestic terrorists is to use our whistles and record everything that they do. We've been winning all of these legal cases mostly because of the videos that prove how they lie in court. We have to organize rapid-response groups in every community as they spread their efforts across the nation.

In reporting out of Louisiana, it shows how the local and state police are helping them monitor social media through the local DHS Fusion Center. When DHS, the feds, and police got hacked during BlueLeaks we learned exactly how these fusion centers really work. Very few press outlets would cover the BlueLeaks revelations because of their relationship with police, but in places where the truly independent media covered it the fusion center got quickly shut down. The BlueLeaks data trove is still published on DDOSecrets.com, and although it's a few years old, it is still of great value in understanding their training, procedures, and the propaganda that is disseminated.

Here's the latest reporting about the operations they're conducting in New Orleans:
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-new-orleans-online-monitoring-b2c300245ea4ffbef335502245760a1d

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FBI And DHS Intimidating Protesters (Again)

ICE's Biggest Fear Is Transparency