There's a chilling effect from even just the arrest.

Oh this. Poor people lose their job because of an arrest. Arrest = homeless = dead sooner.

Best outcome is he successfully sues for the violations.

If you're against an academia for further police militarization you're a terrorist apparently.

And people are still convinced that's the land of the free, when it's a distorted non-representative democracy on top of a police state.

US is closer to South American banana republics than Iceland or Japan.