INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Image copyrightGetty ImagesPolice in Florida have been criticised for allegedly entering a funeral home in a futile bid to unlock a dead
man's smartphone.Linus Phillip, 30, was killed while trying to escape from police at a petrol station in Largo on 23 March.After his body
was released to the Sylvan Abbey Funeral Home, his family say, two police officers tried to use his finger to unlock his mobile phone."It's
disgusting," his girlfriend, Victoria Armstrong, said."So they are allowed to pull him out of the refrigerator and use a dead man's finger
to get to his phone," she told ABC Action News.Largo Police said that Mr Phillip had used his car as a deadly weapon - by dragging a police
officer who had tried to get into the car - as he tried to escape.According to Forbes, police frequently use the fingerprints of overdose
victims on the TouchID fingerprint scanner on iPhones, to try to find information relating to drug dealers, and often they are
successful.But it doesn't always work - in November 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan rammed his car into a group of pedestrians at Ohio State
University and then began stabbing people
He injured 11 people before police shot him dead
An unlocked iPhone was found on his person - but in the hours after his death as police sought access to his phone, the iPhone went to
sleep, and when it reopened, it required a passcode
Pressing Artan's finger to the smartphone did not work
