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BART Cuts Cell Phone Service to Prevent Police Brutality Protest →

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A demonstration was planned for August 11 to protest the fatal shooting of Charles Blair Hill by a BART police officer. The demonstration never happened, because nobody was able to communicate: cell phone service on several BART platforms was blocked.

CBS reported that BART disabled mobile phone reception on its underground platforms. BART at first claimed that it asked the Bay Area’s mobile providers to voluntarily disable their own services, and that the providers complied.

However, BART’s statement on the shutdown used the active voice: “BART temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform”. [Update: BART confessed to jamming cell phone reception itself. This is illegal.]

(Source: anarchyagogo)

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