We in the UK sometimes tend to look at stories in the media about stuff that happens in the USA - gun violence and grotesque affronts to humanity like Trump, and feel a bit smug that, for all of our faults as a society, that could never happen here.

Here's a case where I am pretty sure that the boot is on the other foot. I can't see a government getting away for years with this gross abuse of human rights of Americans. Am I right?