From Mobledia, an account of Michigan's latest adventure in arbitrary power:
Civil liberties activist group ACLU accuses the [Michigan State Police] of extracting private information from peoples' phones, saying the police are violating the Fourth Amendment. The police are reportedly using specialized devices from Cellebrite to access people's phones during routine traffic stops with no probable cause or suspicion of wrongdoing....
As usual, the coverup gets even more outrageous than the original offense. In this case, it takes the quintessentially plutocratic form of charging so much for information that only the ultra-rich (i.e. the people the cops would never dare to abuse in the first place) can afford it:
The MSP says it will hand over information about its cell phone searches to the ACLU for an patently obstructionist $500,000 processing fee.
Ve muzt zee yahr pehpahs, und yahr fonekallz....