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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI got a news alert saying fed judge prohibits trumps goons in Portland
from arresting anyone in Portland.
Is this true?
elleng
(131,590 posts)(or prohibits their bad behavior.)
Here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142544642
MichMan
(12,016 posts)Doesn't say they are prohibited from arresting anyone else
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,510 posts)Updated 6:21 PM; Today 2:25 PM
Link: https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/judge-inclined-to-restrain-federal-law-enforcement-from-using-force-threats-dispersal-orders-against-journalists-legal-observers.html
Excerpts:
During the hearing, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon quoted case law from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying, When wrongdoing is underway, officials have great incentive to blindfold the eyes of the Fourth Estate. The free press is the guardian of the public interest, and the judiciary is the guardian of the press.
Attorney Matthew Borden, representing the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon, urged the judge to stop the federal agents occupation of Portland and submitted at least a dozen statements from journalists, photojournalists and legal observers who have suffered shots to the back, neck and legs from impact munitions fired by federal officers outside the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in the last month.
These are not accidents. These are not inadvertent shots, Borden said. These are acts of intimidation by a tyrant, and they have no place in the city of Portland, and they have no place in this country.'
KY.......
Nevilledog
(51,383 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)I don't think this will help much at all. They are going to violate the injunction and then gin up some bee ess excuse...watch.
ret5hd
(20,595 posts)Anyone. There are NO official press credentials in the US. That is a consequence of the first amendment and has been confirmed by the Supreme Court. If you are recording, taking notes, interviewing, even observing, YOU ARE THE PRESS.
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