NVM Assange, look within our own borders: https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war... https://reason.com/2019/06/04/san-francisco-police-got-a-war...

Implying that one illegal example in San Francisco by local police, means that it is a common procedure in the US that is being applied "within our own borders," is absurd.

A given unit of police can do any given illegal thing, that doesn't make it common or mean that it's going to become common.

Were they immediately arrested?

If not, that means it's "unofficial" (wink, wink) de-facto policy.

You don't even need to reach for a controversial quasi-journalist. Normal, boring American journalists are targeted, which is a far worse situation.