Arrest Puts Focus on Protesters' Texting

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As demonstrations have evolved with the help of text messages and online social networks, so too has the response of law enforcement. On Thursday, FBI agents descended on a house in Jackson Heights, Queens, and spent 16 hours searching it. The most likely reason for the raid: a man who lived there had helped coordinate communications among protesters at the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh. A criminal complaint in Pennsylvania accuses him of "directing others, specifically protesters of the G-20 summit, in order to avoid apprehension after a lawful order to disperse."


Arrest Puts Focus on Protesters' Texting