Posted on 05/15/2019 8:56:44 PM PDT by blueplum
...San Francisco police (SFPD) raided the home of a freelance journalist on Friday, handcuffed him for hours and confiscated his devices in an apparent effort to uncover a police leak to the reporter. The state’s leading newspapers, along with first amendment advocates across the US, have decried the raid as an extraordinary and flagrant violation of press freedoms. But as pressure on the city has intensified in recent days, Democratic leaders have chosen to explicitly endorse the police investigation and tactics, criticize the journalist – or remain entirely silent about mounting free speech concerns.
“What happened was unlike anything I’ve seen in quite awhile in this country,” said David Snyder, the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition, a California activist group. “For it to happen in a city that likes to position itself as a champion of civil liberties makes it all the more shocking....”
Authorities said the raid on the videographer, Bryan Carmody, was part of an investigation into the leak of a confidential police report on the death of Jeff Adachi, San Francisco’s public defender. A judge signed search warrants for an investigation into “stolen or embezzled” property, according to the Los Angeles Times, which reported that the officers confiscated dozens of Carmody’s personal items, including his notebooks, phone, computer, hard drives and cameras....
...Thomas Burke, Carmody’s lawyer, told the Guardian he was preparing to file motions for the warrants to be quashed and to have the seized materials returned. “The first step … should never be to issue search warrants with respect to a journalist,” the attorney said, noting that a warrant would “sweep up everything that they have, every story they are currently working on, every story they could’ve worked on in the last three decades”...”.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
And the black, female liberal mayor - who brings a unique perspective to the office - says nothing...
Is anyone surprised? If you are, you haven’t been paying attention.
The New Liberals are people who..
1. Have no sense of humor
2. Don’t like normal male-female sex, very prudish
3. Are yuge fans of the Intel Community
4. Approve of spying on journalists
5. Approve of armed police raids on journalists
6. Like war a whole lot
WHAT IS LIBERAL ABOUT THAT STUFF..??
I forgot an important one:
“Don’t mind if worker wages are perpetually driven DOWN”
That one is a wowzer.
” Everything within the Party, nothing outside the Party. “
In the liberal world, leaking is okay if you are leaking on Trump But not okay if you leak dirt on a liberal icon. Got it?
400,000 fruity frithco faggots in one thity?
The big lie is that the left "defends" civil liberties. It doesn't. They defend their own radical agenda by any means necessary.
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