Afro Latino man calls 911 after white man pulls a gun on him. Minutes later, the same white man shows up in uniform with another cop, and writes him a ticket. Luckily the entire encounter was captured by 911 dispatch. bostonglobe.com/2022/08/06/met… Former DA Rollins was working up a case against the white cop: filing a false police report, assault with a deadly weapon. Rollins leaves to become US Attorney; Baker taps Kevin Hayden as interim Suffolk DA. Hayden scuttled the prosecution.

Kudos to my colleagues at @ACLU for filing and litigating a FOIA request to DHS about ICE and CBP buying cell phone location data records on 250 million cell phones in the US. Here are some high/low lights: aclu.org/news/privacy-t… DHS has spent *millions of dollars of taxpayer money* buying cell phone location data records from two companies: Venntel and Babel Street. In marketing materials obtained by the ACLU, Venntel claims to collect more than 15 billion data points from 250m devices *every single day*

For decades, privacy and civil rights activists have pushed for warrant requirements for various forms of electronic surveillance. The criminalization of abortion care shows us those protections don't go far enough. aclu.org/news/privacy-t… The trouble doesn't start or end at period tracking apps. All the surveillance technologies and data seizures police have relied on to police the war on drugs? They'll be used to investigate and arrest people for providing or seeking abortion care.