"There was no violence from the protesters. The violence was from police only," said Sally Frank of the National Lawyers Guild, a human rights defense group. "Certainly, the first or second dispersal warning was muffled, but everyone got out of the street. By the time the dispersal order was audible, everyone was on the sidewalk, but police moved in.
"Some people were dispersing and were chased, and other people weren't given the opportunity and were grabbed within seconds."
A professor of law at Drake University, Frank said a legal observer with the guild was among those arrested. Legal observers are not affiliated with protest groups and are there to see whether people's First Amendment rights are being violated.
“”We are in communication with eyewitnesses to the police actions last night,” ACLU of Iowa Legal Director Rita Bettis Austen said in a statement. “There are credible accounts of police action in violation of the constitutional guarantee of free speech, including ‘kettling’ and the use of excessive force on nonviolent protesters including a child, media and a legal observer.””
NLG ping. Frank is a longtime ACLU activist.
Blocking roadways is not Freedom of speech.
It is not and cannot be a protected right.
Blocking roadways is not Freedom of speech.
It is not and cannot be a protected right.
The NLG, the ‘human rights group’ whose member Lynne Stewart aided the blind terrorist leader Abdur Rahman communicate with his terror group and instruct them to reactivate and carry out the Luxor Massacre?
“There was no violence from the protesters. The violence was from police only,”
That was written before the event.
“Who are you going to believe; us or your lying eyes?”
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