People employed at these organisations have been going to news organisations claiming that when they see a Pixel phone, they think it's a drug dealer (insane and ludicrous hyperbole) and that it is apparently our fault.

Since then, numerous news sites in different languages have been posting that, mainly repurposing the same talking points. It's just a news campaign trying to claim we are enablers of illicit activities.

In a swing of irony, here's an article from Citizen Lab on how the same Spanish government used exploits against political opponents in Catalonia:

Bear in mind that even police using these will almost entirely be using them against people not convicted of a crime based on suspicion. GrapheneOS would have been more likely to protect them.