Dana El-Kurd

And then after the 4th of July shooting, someone messaged, quote, please delete signal chats, chats still on phone, even if removed from groups, unquote.

Yeah.

According to support committee notes, some signal messages were recovered from phones using Apple's internal notification system.

So even though signal had been removed, incoming messages were preserved in the internal memory on the phone.

Outgoing messages were not preserved because there's no notification system for outgoing messages.

And you can set your settings on signal to not display the message in notifications.

And it seems like that was not the case for these messages that were taken from defendant's phones.

Yeah.

And this is a known, I mean, just the fact that having notifications on with Signal is a privacy issue has been known for a while, but yeah.

Two defendants, Liz Sojo and Savannah Batten, were neither in planning chats nor attended the gear check.

Uh-huh.

But all the defendants who attended the protest did carpool together in two vehicles and brought a total of 11 firearms, body armor, individual first aid kits, and all these were presented as government exhibits.

I'm going to quote the Department of Justice right up about this case.

Quote,

Unquote.

Yep.

And if someone is talking about, for example, suppressive fire, that's not something that...

is really relevant to a defensive shooting in a legal situation.

That's like a combat thing.

Like very rarely do self-defense shootings involve suppressing fire.