A lot of dumb criminals seem to carry smart phones. The irony.

Probably, but these are people who are being charged for political "crimes" brought mostly because the government doesn't think people have a right to protest. While it's unsurprising that the citizen who discharged their weapon was tried for this, most of the other folks were just doing run-of-the-mill protest stuff.

I also get that in Texas they are fine "criminalizing" protesting, but that's just part of its hyper-authoritarian "charm", and a lot of us don't think that protesting in itself should be criminal.

	▲	snatekay 19 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The person whose Signal notifications were extracted, Lynette Sharp, was not the one who shot a cop in the neck, no. The reason she pleaded guilty to “providing material support to terrorists” is that she helped the shooter get away afterward and gave him a disguise; he remained on the lam for ten days.
	▲	inemesitaffia 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		They are part of a larger direct action group.