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Leftist Effort to Ban Cops from Using Tear Gas Against Lawless Protestors Crushed by Court
.judicialwatch.org ^ | june 30,2020 | JW

Posted on 07/06/2020 8:40:45 PM PDT by NoLibZone

A preposterous lawsuit demanding cops be banned from using tear gas to disperse lawless protestors who block city streets and interfere with traffic has been struck down by a judge who ruled this week that the restriction “unnecessarily burdens the police and puts them and the public at risk.” The case was filed in Virginia by a leftist civil rights group that claims the city of Richmond and its police department as well as the state police violated the Constitutional rights of law-breaking protestors by using tear gas and other crowd control tactics during a disruptive Black Lives Matter demonstration outside Richmond City Hall last week. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Virginia Student Power Network, asks the court to broadly ban the use of “chemical munitions, irritants, explosives, stun weapons, and physical-impact weapons.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antifa; beverlysnukals; beverlywsnukals; blackliesmurder; blm; cair; judiciary; richmondcitycircuit; teargas
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To: READINABLUESTATE

That’s like the guy who wanted to order a mongoose, but didn’t know the plural of mongoose. So he wrote on the order form, “send me a mongoose ... on second thought, make that two!”


21 posted on 07/07/2020 7:53:59 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

“That’s like the guy who wanted to order a mongoose, ....”

I get a chuckle from what groups of animals are called: What do you call a group of mongooses? A BUSINESS of mongooses.

https://www.treehugger.com/strange-collective-animal-names-4868835


22 posted on 07/07/2020 8:38:38 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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