Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters
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> The affidavit also links the suspect to a white supremacist group called the Aryan Cowboys, and to an incident weeks later where a Muslim woman was harassed.
While the arsonist's politics are probably irrelevant, the police think they know them.
The article says
> Police in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence
The problem people have here is that these search warrants are not specific enough (for one thing, those are houses, people LIVE THERE) to stand by themselves, and people generally don't trust police or prosecutors to not use them as evidence.