Posted on 09/05/2020 3:40:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A federal judge has issued a restraining order, temporarily barring Detroit police from using a range of response tactics—including tear gas, rubber bullets, and batons—against “peaceful protesters” after a group accused officers of excessive force, with the city’s police chief dismissing the decision, saying no such methods have been used on people protesting peacefully.
U.S. District Court Judge Laurie Michelson partially granted a temporary restraining order filed on Aug. 31 by Detroit Will Breathe against the city of Detroit (pdf), accusing police of using brutal tactics to deter protesters from practicing their free speech rights.
“Since May 29, 2020, Defendants (collectively “DPD”) have repeatedly responded to peaceful demonstrations for equal rights under the law for Black Detroiters with unnecessary, unreasonable, and excessive violence, subjecting nonviolent demonstrators to, among other things, tear-gas, pepper-spray, beatings, rubber bullets, deafening and disorienting sound cannons, police vehicles, flash grenades, chokeholds, and cordoning them off in small groups (“kettled”), and arresting en masse without probable cause,” the motion claims.
Michelson’s order, as cited by Detroit News, prohibits police from using certain tactics against peaceful protesters like using batons or shields to hit them, while extending the ban to bar the use of certain other tactics—like applying chokeholds or using vehicles for ramming—against any demonstrators whatsoever.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig responded to the order by saying his officers only have used force when protesters were not peaceful and that the ruling will not change how the department handles demonstrations, according to a statement on Twitter by the Detroit Police Department.
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“Laurie J. Michelson was commissioned by President Barack Obama on March 14, 2014, to serve as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan. She served as a United States Magistrate Judge in this District from 2011 to 2014.”
Ah! A Traitor.
Never Trumps be down wid it.
Maybe they interested in a new wide screen, some lobsters and Air Jordans.
This
bingo
I am sure the judge is defining “Peaceful Protest” to include murder, arson, looting and destruction. It was long ago determined judicially that burning the American Flag was a Free Speech right. All else necessarily follows. Burning businesses, looting, and shooting people are guaranteed Free Speech Rights.
Open a Free Speech Zone in the Judges Neighborhood and force the protestors there.
When so called protesters know there are no costs to their crimes, they are emboldened to become even more aggressive and violent. These protesters have shown ‘they give cover’ for the violent and criminal ones without batting an eye.
Juck you fudge.
Nice shit eating grin there judgette. Maybe some Spanish speaking fellas can remove those choppers one by one?
Or a smoke grenade.
Now 4). Microphone?
Sure looks like a muzzle suppressor sticking out there.
This Canute the great obviously doesn’t live anywhere near the action.
“...against “peaceful protesters”...”
Uhhh...they don’t your judgeness.
Chad Wolfe should say right, it would be hypocrisy not to apply this order to federal police and order a stand-down in the vicinity of the Detroit federal court house. With a judicial order like this we can no longer protect judicial lives and property from mob violence.
Detroit has not had the troubles of other cities because the police chief and mayor are in lock step on this.
Peaceful protests are ok.
You step out of line and they are going to land on you like a ton o' bricks.
And many of the residents of Detroit carry. Do not mess with them. They will shoot.
One of the most successful tactics by terrorists is to mix innocents in with the combatants. If the innocents were not there, there would be no problem. But as long as they have this fantasy that they are doing something productive by protesting about something that has no discourse, then they are establishing themselves as collateral damage and through their stupidity they are causing as much harm by shielding the terrorists as the terrorists could accomplish if they were there in real numbers.
And outside of stupidity, if anyone with enough electricity in their brains to keep there arms and legs moving would just observe that there is no discussion about this problem....just harm. Then they would stay home and contact their congress folks and ask them to talk, not protect and something would get accomplished. But the US people will never back down to terrorists without a fight for themselves and their families. So the pain continues...
rwood
You put your finger on it. That is the real problem. Very few competent women. And I’ll just stop right there.
Great! Let them burn Detroit to the ground. That’s really going to help the cause.
Can someone define when a peaceful protester turns “not peaceful.”
I think there are some folks who need to understand that.
The mayor (Mike Duggan) backs the police chief. Both of them are democrats because you can not take office in Detroit as anything else but they both have some smarts.
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