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Federal Judge Orders Detroit Police to Stop Using Batons, Gas, Chokeholds on ‘Peaceful Protesters’
The Epoch Times ^ | September 5, 2020 | Tom Ozimek

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: clownbammyjudge; detroit; edmichigan; jamescraig; judiciary; lauriejmichelson; lauriemichelson; obamajudge; politicaljudiciary
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Uh, isn’t that an oxymoron?

If they’re peaceful, they wouldn’t need to use any of those.


101 posted on 09/05/2020 5:48:17 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: 2banana

Ask the judge if he would prefer the police go straight to deadly force.


102 posted on 09/05/2020 6:03:49 PM PDT by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Watch Detroit go up in flames very soon.


103 posted on 09/05/2020 6:07:06 PM PDT by wjcsux (They are burning buildings and Bibles now, people are next!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Detroit police:

https://youtu.be/i33DX9Wjd7E


104 posted on 09/05/2020 6:17:21 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (BLM= Baby Lives Matter)
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To: Travis McGee

He has dead eyes.


105 posted on 09/05/2020 6:28:15 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Remember Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian.)
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To: bdfromlv

yup


106 posted on 09/05/2020 6:28:34 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Good point


107 posted on 09/05/2020 6:30:55 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Travis McGee

#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.


108 posted on 09/05/2020 6:40:52 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (BLM= Baby Lives Matter)
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To: Truth29

“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.


109 posted on 09/05/2020 6:55:59 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (BLM= Baby Lives Matter)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; E. Pluribus Unum; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; ...

“...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.


110 posted on 09/05/2020 9:15:09 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Useless, lawless, and unfit for the bench.

111 posted on 09/05/2020 10:40:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Jim Noble

Peaceful protest is 1A protected free speech. There is a lot of crossing the line going on.


112 posted on 09/05/2020 10:46:40 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let them riot and riot, every riot convinces people to stop voting for the Democrats who clearly want this to happen


113 posted on 09/05/2020 11:33:42 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: Robert DeLong

ooof, what a stain


114 posted on 09/06/2020 4:18:21 AM PDT by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

some judges could use a good dragging behind a U.S. made pick em up truck along a rocky dirt road.


115 posted on 09/06/2020 5:22:11 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' Baby, Molon Labe)
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