Posted on 04/18/2018 9:52:22 AM PDT by Signalman
A lawyer is arguing that the San Jose Police Department in California isn’t liable for President Donald Trump’s supporters being attacked and assaulted because they were essentially asking for it.
According to CourthouseNews.com, a Ninth Circuit panel appears to be leaning toward allowing Trump supporters to move forward with their negligence claims against San Jose for failing to protect them during a far-left riot at a Trump campaign rally in 2016.
“There was an angry mob at the end of one exit while police said the other exits were blocked,” said Circuit Judge William Fletcher during the Monday hearing. “That sounds like the state created danger.”
But San Jose’s attorney, Matthew Pritchard, is essentially arguing the city isn’t responsible for the riots, mobs, and attacks because Trump supporters knew violent Californians weren’t going to play nice. He said the police officers, who completely failed to maintain a safe environment for both sides, should be entitled to immunity because there’s no way they could have known their negligence potentially violated Trump supporters constitutional rights.
“Take the state action out of the picture, you still have a situation with a potential to be dangerous,” he said. “It’s the nature of free-speech events that attendees could face political opponents that may become violent.”
Harmeet Dhillon, the attorney who argued the case on behalf of the Trump supporters who attended the rally, said the police actively created unnecessary danger and violence by blocking off alternative exits. She also said officers diverted Trump supporters directly into the middle of the seething mob of anti-Trumpers when they tried to leave.
Dhillon, who is also a well-known Fox News contributor, posted a video of Pritchard’s comments to her Facebook page on Friday.
And the rank and file just stood by.
The inscrutable California vibe.
At the store, Time magazine’s cover shows four assassins who changed history. I’m curious if the left is using this issue as a invitation to some wacko.
The police are not our friends. I figured that out nearly 30 years ago.
The vaunted rank and file cops and fibs may be conservative, but they are not the ones in charge - and they do as they are told.
An undercover cop officially reported that he saw citizens running for their lives - and he did nothing.
I would sure like Trump to invite everyone to come to those rallies armed.
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