In a situation where you are raided like the journalist, it may be worth nuking the phone. Consider the sources that could be exposed.
Having your phone available to law enforcement is the equivalent of forfeit your right to remain silent.
And more, once they have access, what is stopping them from planting false evidence?
In this fascist fever that US is living... I would prefer to avoid the risks.
Out of curiosity I checked some big news sites here, it's relevant in the International section, but not the headline in any of them.
And none of news had the name of the victim in the title.
I knew ICE executed someone (again) in broad daylight, but the video on social media was the source, not the news.
The authoritarian escalation inside the US may be less relevant for me than it's escalation outside; like the kidnapping of the venezuelan president by US forces and it's repercussions in south-america.
Maybe I'm cuban, colombian, brazilian or mexican, and I'm more concerned with Trump's threatening interventions in my country like he did with Venezuela, knowing that the International community is ignoring his imperialistic moves on latin-america (as always).
... Or even violence cases in my own country are more relevant because they are a bigger risk for me. The world is bigger than the white western hemisphere.
Edit: But I get why everyone is very reactive right now, the situation is very fucked-up.
The expansion of Europe's reach over the world in the 1500s and 1600s. Or at least the transatlantic slave trade. I would not exist, but a LOT of suffering would be prevented.
My guy, many of the Hitler policies was inspired by the southern US policies against the black population. Sometimes I wonder the nazi rise and fall didn't prevent something like that happening in the US in the XX century.
Last time I heard about it, it was being reviewed cause the genetic diversity in Africa is too high to support that claim. The bottleneck may be related only to a part of the human population.
I would like it even more to see that working on a Xiaomi or Samsung