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Posted on 07/11/2025 5:48:06 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A federal judge ruled Los Angeles police cannot force journalists out of protest areas or use nonlethal weapons against them after reporters alleged officers targeted them during anti-ICE demonstrations last month.
U.S. District Judge Hernán D. Vera granted the Los Angeles Press Club's request for a 14-day restraining order against the city's police department after the group said it documented dozens of incidents in which officers forced reporters away from public spaces where protests were taking place, hit them with rubber bullets and nonlethal weapons and exposed them to tear gas.
Vera's ruling is an emergency order giving the court more time to consider whether to grant a longer-term block. It prohibits Los Angeles police from keeping journalists out of closed areas, assaulting or obstructing those in the process of news gathering, arresting those in closed areas and using nonlethal weapons against reporters.
"When journalists persisted in documenting the protests, it appears from the evidence presented that they faced an onslaught of projectiles and other shows of physical force," Vera's ruling said. "On some occasions, LAPD officers purportedly targeted individuals who were clearly identifiable as members of the press."
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Does that mean they can use lethal force? Asking for a friend.
They likely aren’t reporters. But Antifa pretending they are “press”.
Watch every “protester” (rioter) show up with a “Press” sign on their black ANTIFI uniform.
lethal weapons would clear this up in short order....
“The press” can be defined as anyone with cell phone camera now
Ok, good to know.
What “journalists”?
If some idiot wears a sign that says “journalist” or “press” and then mingles in with the other rioters — that person most likely IS a rioter. Simply in a different guise.
Water cannons. I really like water cannons.
“The press” can be defined as anyone with cell phone camera now
I predict a huge increase in “journalists” among antifa and other protesters.
They encourage the protesters who become more violent when the press is around.
Sounds like the judge needs to be on site to designate the “press” to law enforcement. And what is the penalty for infiltrators posing as press?
Lethal force it is then!
They should all wear fedoras with PRESS on the brim like the old days
Lethal weapons it is then
By tomorrow EVERYONE of the rioters will be wearing “Press” vests.
Meanwhile, ICE, Border Patrol, DEA, etc. Have at it.
Any “innocent” person who walks over to the rioters to “see what’s up” deserves whatever happens.
Funny.
Like the Law And Order SVU episode where the evidence for the guilty man was kept out of court by the judge to honor clergy and confessor privilege of a 12 step group——a “minister” led the meetings who got his certification as clergy from a sleazy New Age place for two weeks of study online and his current day job was security guard at a strip club.
Even easier for these guys to be “journalists” now.
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