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Phoenix police don’t follow Fe’La iniko on social media, but he knows they’re watching. “They’re pretty hip to Instagram,” the racial justice activist said. “Sometimes they’ll pop up in my story views.” Iniko, whose given name is Milton Hasley, often uses social media to share fliers on upcoming protests or speak out against police violence. So when officers surrounded his car last summer while he was leaving a demonstration against the killings of George Floyd and Dion Johnson, iniko worried he might have been targeted in ad...

Arizona PBS By Nicole Sadek, Laura Kraegel, Jimmy Cloutier and Michael McDaniel/Special for Cronkite News May 13, 2021 (Video by Michael McDaniel/Special for Cronkite News) Phoenix police don’t follow Fe’La iniko on social media, but he knows they’re watching. “They’re pretty hip to Instagram,” the racial justice activist said. “Sometimes they’ll pop up in my story views.” Iniko, whose given name is Milton Hasley, often uses social media to share fliers on upcoming protests or speak out against police violence. So when officers surrounded his car las...

Yet in one instance, the Phoenix Police Department chose to return the firearms of a protester, but not the rest of his belongings, after his criminal case was dismissed. Brandon Valentin, who's 27, was arrested at a downtown Phoenix protest in August for conduct that he allegedly committed at a different protest two weeks earlier. Before the arrest, he said, he had been driving around near the August 23 protest in case any friends who were at the demonstration needed rides out of the area. Phoenix police officers pulled him over and arrested him near the Phoenix Police Department headquarter...