I like to set my Biometrics to an odd finger instead of the expectation

We aren't quite to the torture for password stage yet.

Same with android

Depending on your skin color, reaching into your pocket to do this may be punishable by immediate execution. Just don't use biometrics.

From The Guardian article on the same incident:

The defendant, Sam Tunick, was stopped for interrogation at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport on 24 January last year, after vacationing in the Dominican Republic. Unbeknown to him, federal authorities had put him on a terrorism watchlist because of his alleged association with the movement against Cop City.

There are some of us that know these things happen and take steps to protect our rights and personal data.

Most all of us here have multiple methods employed to avoid being tracked online via browser plugins or whatever. Some of us take it a step further and lock our phones should an encounter with LEOs be a possibility, and he had a wipe command to go even further.

These days the US is closer to a lot of fascist authoritarian states, and it’s probably only a short time before they throw people in jail for whatever manufactured reason because they wipe a phone before the Gestapo can pry into it and charge us with the crime of being un-American or some shit because we posted a meme mocking trump.

Since they just let him walk after the phone wiped itself, they clearly didn't actually believe he was a risk of any kind. If there was any actual reason for suspicion they would/should have detained him outright.

Doesn't matter what his reasons were to wipe the device, that's the point of privacy, not to hide criminal activities.

It is actually harder to torture a password out of someone than hold the phone up to their face.

Constitution ain't got shit to do with that one way or another.