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DHS has claimed that cases where citizens were detained happened only because they were interfering with other arrests or otherwise breaking the law.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

The encounter took a turn when police first tried to detain a man, and then several others, who they insisted were interfering with their duties.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2023

TraPac on its website said its terminal would be closed for the first shift because protests were interfering with the entrance gate.

From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2022

Weirdly, in experiments centuries later in which researchers took care to shine only one photon at a time toward the wall, the interference pattern remained, as if a single particle were interfering with itself.

From Scientific American • Jan. 8, 2020

The Uganda station has since been broken up by order of the king, as the Arabs were interfering too much with his subjects.

From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning