根据新提交的法庭记录（其中包括警报截图和塔尼克受讯照片），2025年1月，一名国土安全部官员发出警报，要求在机场拦截“停止警察城市”活动人士塞缪尔·塔尼克，理由是他涉嫌“恐怖主义活动”。
When a Department of Homeland Security official sent out an alert to stop Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, at an airport in January 2025, they said the reason was because he was suspected of “terrorist activities,” according to new filed court records which include a screenshot of the alert and photos of Tunick’s interrogation.
塔尼克最终向海关及边境保卫局（CBP）官员提供了一个代码，输入该代码后，他那部以安全和隐私为重点的GrapheneOS手机被清空。塔尼克现在因这一涉嫌行为面临刑事指控，这是近年来最引人注目的科技公民权利案件之一。
Tunick ultimately provided Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials with a code that, when entered, wiped his security- and privacy-focused GrapheneOS phone. Tunick is now being criminally charged for that alleged act, in one of the most high profile technology civil rights cases in recent memory.
法庭记录还显示，CBP官员在审讯期间对塔尼克撒了谎。他们没有说明他是因涉嫌恐怖主义而成为目标——尽管这次搜查发生在特朗普第二任期刚开始之际，但“恐怖主义”的认定范围已大幅扩大——而是说需要他的手机来查找“儿童色情制品”。“下午好，”一封由国土安全调查局（HSI，属于移民及海关执法局ICE）官员发给CBP和其他官员的电子邮件写道，“以下人员定于今日经DL 1778航班于1930抵达亚特兰大哈茨菲尔德-杰克逊国际机场（ATL）。塔尼克正因涉嫌恐怖主义活动接受HSI/联合反恐特遣队（JTTF）调查。”
The court records also showed that CBP officials lied to Tunick during his interrogation. Instead of saying he was being targeted for suspected terrorism — although this search happened just at the start of the second Trump administration, it has dramatically broadened what organizations or people may be considered such — they said they needed his phone to look for “kiddie porn.”“Good afternoon,” an email sent from a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) official, part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to CBP and other officials reads. “The following subject is scheduled to arrive in ATL [Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport] today via DL 1778 @ 1930 Hours. TUNICK is under investigation by HSI/JTTF for suspected terrorist activities.”
该邮件附带塔尼克照片，并要求官员将其带往二级检查区，扣留其所有电子设备，并收集其密码。
The email includes a photo of Tunick, and asks the officials to direct him to secondary inspection, retain all of his electronics, and collect their passcodes.
正如 404 Media 去年 12 月首次披露的那样，图尼克被指控，据称他“明知故犯地销毁、损坏、浪费、处置，并以其他方式采取行动删除一部 Google Pixel 手机的数字内容，目的是阻止和妨碍政府依法将该财产纳入其管辖和控制之下”。图尼克的律师之一马修·多奇此前曾告诉 404 Media，他只找到另一起使用同一冷门法律的案件，那是一起贩毒案。“这极其罕见，”多奇说。
As 404 Media first revealed in December, Tunick was charged because he allegedly “did knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone, for the purpose of preventing and impairing the Government’s lawful authority to take said property into its custody and control.”Matthew Dodge, one of Tunick’s lawyers, previously told 404 Media he only found one other case using the same obscure law, a drug trafficking case. “This is extraordinarily rare,” Dodge said.
图尼克是亚特兰大“停止警察城市”运动的参与者，该运动广泛抗议建设一个大型警察培训中心，当局以纵火、破坏公物和人肉搜索罪名对该运动展开调查。除涉嫌擦除手机数据外，图尼克不被怀疑有其他犯罪行为，他此前曾将自己目前面临的起诉置于针对其他“停止警察城市”抗议者的广泛案件背景中。
Tunick was part of the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which broadly protested the building of a large police training center, and which authorities investigated for arson, vandalism, and doxing. Tunick is not suspected of any crime beyond the alleged wiping of the phone, and has previously put his current prosecution in the context of the wide spanning cases against other Stop Cop City protesters.
新提交的法庭记录中，图尼克的律师主张证据应被排除，记录包含机场遭遇的新照片和描述。CBP 官员问图尼克他们会不会在他的手机里发现“儿童色情制品”，图尼克立即予以否认。“正如证据听证会所清楚显示的，这些毫无根据的指控只不过是借口，目的是对图尼克先生的设备进行深度的探底式搜查，”律师写道。他们补充道，“芬德利警官承认，警方完全没有理由相信图尼克先生持有儿童色情制品”，指的是其中一名官员。图尼克因涉嫌擦除手机，面临最高五年联邦监禁。
The newly filed court record, in which Tunick’s lawyers argue that evidence should be thrown out, include new photos and descriptions of the airport encounter. The CBP officials asked Tunick if they were going to find “kiddie porn” on his phone, which Tunick immediately denied. “As the evidentiary hearing made clear, these unfounded accusations were nothing more than pretext for a fishing expedition into the depths of Mr. Tunick’s devices,” the lawyers wrote. They added, “Officer Findley acknowledged that officers had no reason whatsoever to believe Mr. Tunick possessed child pornography,” referring to one of the officials. Tunick faces a maximum of five years in federal prison for allegedly wiping the phone.
“我希望人们明白，针对我的指控旨在恐吓人们保护自己的数据和隐私，政府希望确立一个先例，即没有人拥有隐私权，”图尼克此前曾告诉 404 Media。
“I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy, and the government hopes to set a precedent that no one has the right to privacy,” Tunick previously told 404 Media.