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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Uh, isn’t that an oxymoron?
If they’re peaceful, they wouldn’t need to use any of those.
Ask the judge if he would prefer the police go straight to deadly force.
Watch Detroit go up in flames very soon.
He has dead eyes.
yup
Good point
#1 is the butt stock of an AR clone.
#2 looks like a flash-bang.
#3 is a radio.
#4 unknown
#5 PTT junction box?
#6 mag
In other words it’s a HVT for a sniper team.
“How many of these Leftist judges are actually BLM, ANTIFA or open enablers of these terrorists?”
All of them.
Remember when jug ears said we “needed” a civilian “national security force” that is just as well equipped and funded as the military?
We’re seeing that in antifa, blm, nfac, and these judges to name a few.
“...Federal Judge Orders Detroit Police to Stop Using Batons, Gas, Chokeholds on ‘Peaceful Protesters’...”
Dear LEOs: Fine. Ok.
So if you can’t use those tools on the street criminials, maybe it’s time to start using them on particular Judges, then... ESPECIALLY if they’re siding with enemies of the decent Citizenry like BLM and the Antifaholes.
Useless, lawless, and unfit for the bench.
Peaceful protest is 1A protected free speech. There is a lot of crossing the line going on.
Let them riot and riot, every riot convinces people to stop voting for the Democrats who clearly want this to happen
ooof, what a stain
some judges could use a good dragging behind a U.S. made pick em up truck along a rocky dirt road.
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