Pretty surprised to not see mumble mentioned. It’s mostly a voice chat replacement. But the low latency chat works so damn well and easy to self host.

You mean the part where they threw the flashbang and gas INTO their CAR

Way to rewrite the story such that it WOULD have been rational to use flashbangs against protestors in the first place. But innocent bystanders not ok, so this implies the protestors aren’t innocent?

Yes

It sounds like they’re buying time to find evidence that is admissable in court (ie not their illegal methods they used to first book the defendant while they try to scrounge together what they do need.)

So goes like this. You use illegal surveillance to track someone without a warrant. You arrest them and plant evidence as cause for lock up. Meanwhile now you can actually get a warrant to search the defendants computer, house, etc… To try to find something that does give you evidence of guilt that will actually be used to prove you think they’re guilty.

Obviously he’s innocent though.