There's a chilling effect from even just the arrest.

Oh this. Poor people lose their job because of an arrest. Arrest = homeless = dead sooner.

Best outcome is he successfully sues for the violations.

If you're against an academia for further police militarization you're a terrorist apparently.

And people are still convinced that's the land of the free, when it's a distorted non-representative democracy on top of a police state.

US is closer to South American banana republics than Iceland or Japan.

It doesn't matter.

Mamy will read this and think that crossing a border with a GrapheneOS device is a bad idea, or just drop using what is a nice security feature entirely.

Just being charged is already a massive pain in the ass (both in terms of stress and costs) to an individual.

It is a massive pain in the ass, but if the case is thrown out, the gov't may be less likely to arrest someone again. Who knows, under the current regime. They seem to go after whoever they want.