FBI arrests Twitter users over G20 protesting
FBI arrested two people for using Twitter and scanning police radios to advise protesters on police movements during the G20 protests in Pittsburgh.
Elliot Madison and Michael Wallschlaeger were arrested in a hotel room that the police describe filled with computers and allege that they were scanning police radios to direct protesters away from law enforcement officials.
The FBI seized computers, mobile phones, MP3 players, anarchist literature and pictures of Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx. In addition police found 11 gas masks, five pairs of goggles, a slingshot, four arm pads, eight face masks, a collection of test tubes, droppers, mortar and pestle and beakers.
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