Posted on 07/24/2020 4:45:31 PM PDT by Libloather
Black Lives Matter Chicago and other social justice groups filed suit Thursday against several federal law enforcement agencies seeking to prevent agents deployed in Chicago by President Donald Trump from harassing and detaining protesters.
The civil rights lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court comes a day after Trump said the federal officers would assist local police in reducing violent crime - and not form a camouflaged paramilitary strike force like the one that detained protesters in unmarked vans in Portland, Ore. recently. Trump, however, did not rule out a heavier-handed response in the future.
“We know the authoritarian tactics they have planned because of what they’ve been doing in Portland,” attorney Tess Kleinhaus, who filed the suit, said Thursday during a news conference downtown in Federal Plaza.
“The lawsuit is seeking injunctive relief to restrain federal law enforcement officers from violating the First and Fourth amendments of protesters, legal observers and journalists,” Kleinhaus added.
The First Amendment assures freedom of speech, while the Fourth Amendment protects from unreasonable search and seizure.
“They are trying to suppress our righteous anger, and we will not be suppressed, we will continue fighting back,” Aislinn Pulley, a founder of Black Lives Matter Chicago, told a crowd of about 150 demonstrators Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Loevy graduated from Columbia University in 1993 and went on to Sidley Austin, where Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson worked in the early 1990s.
“I have a dream of the day when my children will be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.”
Martin Luther King.
Guess that dream went away.........................
Blow up her email Facebook Twitter etc.
Fight fire with fire. It’s time.
Lol. Isn't that just the most stupid thing for those thugs to say--Ocasio-Cortez, the Head thug?
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