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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: Travis McGee

What is #2?


41 posted on 09/05/2020 4:02:57 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Jim Noble

Protest is not free speech.


Of course the two are not synonymous, but both are permissible by law within reason.


42 posted on 09/05/2020 4:03:12 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (I'd rather have a rude President than a polite tyrant.)
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To: D Rider

“Excellent response by the police chief.”

I have heard him on Tucker several times. He is a good guy and a sharp cop! When hearing him I have the hope that there might be a future for Detroit.


43 posted on 09/05/2020 4:07:50 PM PDT by gbscott
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

eff’en witch. Did she also rule against “protestors” using high power lasers to blind LEOs? Throwing frozen water bottles at them? Rocks, bricks, etc.? She needs to be outed, which is easy enough to do, and met with protests at her home. https://www.mied.uscourts.gov/index.cfm?pageFunction=chambers&judgeid=34 It’s hard to not loathe Democrats.


44 posted on 09/05/2020 4:09:24 PM PDT by Mr.FixIt (Ethanol: Growing in four months what the U.S.A. burns in one day)
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To: A strike
So many wimyn judges, da’s, govs, police chiefs and mayors.

Yeah, aint it grand? Uh, that's what you were about to say, right? A highly complimentary followup about them.

You can thank me if you want.

45 posted on 09/05/2020 4:10:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Put that LEFTIST judge on the frontline and see how peaceful they are.


46 posted on 09/05/2020 4:11:20 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That’s an unlawful order because it puts people’s lives in jeopardy, on both sides.


47 posted on 09/05/2020 4:11:22 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They should arrest the judge for obstruction of justice, and endangering the welfare of society.


48 posted on 09/05/2020 4:13:09 PM PDT by Revel
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I remember when the libs told us the Arab Spring protesters were all peaceful too. Maybe the Libs are using that same strategy here, now.


49 posted on 09/05/2020 4:14:12 PM PDT by inchworm (al)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The far-left never learns. Whether they are micro-managing a war or this, they continue to repeat their mistakes.


50 posted on 09/05/2020 4:14:33 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Fester Chugabrew

I suppose a law could be passed to permit “Protests”, but they are not free speech nor are they peaceable assemblies to petition for redress.


51 posted on 09/05/2020 4:15:19 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wron)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

IOWs a Federal stand down order. Let them burn the city down.

Reminiscent of 0bama/Hillary.


52 posted on 09/05/2020 4:16:55 PM PDT by TigersEye (Leftist mentality is a multitude of fictions that can't be questioned.)
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To: 2banana

The great Detroit Chief of Police Craig (happens to be a black man) has sternly put up lines of cops when BFM and Anftifa types started to threaten nice retail or business areas. Stopped it cold. When thugs surrounded an SUV with police inside an busted the back window to start grabbing them inside, they warned once and then drove ahead. A ditzy girl claimed they were “trying to kill her” when she failed to get out of the way quickly. Just brushed her. This time.

Chief Craig stated people should buy and learn to safely carry and use firearms. He said the Detroiters with guns now make the criminals think twice about whether their intended victims are secretly armed. Deters crime, he said.

So if crime gets out of control and prisoners are released or not held on bail when arrested, and police are reduced to meek historians of crime scenes as in other citites, Detroit will go back to being a trashy Third World Antifa city like Portland.


53 posted on 09/05/2020 4:16:59 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How many of these Leftist judges are actually BLM, ANTIFA or open enablers of these terrorists?


54 posted on 09/05/2020 4:18:09 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: ProudFossil

That’s some smarts in action! You can host the riot in your back yard. Because when they can’t complain.. ha, that means.. something!


55 posted on 09/05/2020 4:18:16 PM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under sixty.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did HerDishonor ban fire hoses?


56 posted on 09/05/2020 4:18:29 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: JustaCowgirl

Knock off the anti white slur.


57 posted on 09/05/2020 4:19:58 PM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under sixty.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Can we please figure out how to remove all these communist america hating judges? This is sickening!


58 posted on 09/05/2020 4:19:59 PM PDT by boxlunch (The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
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To: Chode; Travis McGee

2) flash bang grenade?


59 posted on 09/05/2020 4:21:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (Leftist mentality is a multitude of fictions that can't be questioned.)
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To: 2banana

Federal Judge orders police to restrict themselves to wagging fingers and saying, “Naughty! Naughty!”


60 posted on 09/05/2020 4:23:46 PM PDT by arthurus (cr covfefe/. hox)
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