Comment by estearum

Not true. As mentioned elsewhere, plenty of people were not in fact violating any laws when this happened to them.

Here's another case. In this one, the government targeted someone who had violated no laws for exercising the 1st Amendment rights afforded to every individual in our country.

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2025-04/FIRE%20Ozt...