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Philly. First Amendment lawyer at FIRE. Licensed in CA, PA. Opinions my own.
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I thought insulting people wasn’t okay
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This is not accurate. The LASD is a Balkanized collection of smaller gangs.
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Was it okay when the officer insulted them?
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but chris rufo was just explaining that lockheed martin is the left’s tip of the spear
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the run-your-mouth one
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Officer, look at the odometer. Do you see how many miles I drove before running over that guy?
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If only there were some kind of metaphor about blight and rot spreading. Maybe something involving agriculture.
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The Las Vegas police union’s president praised the officers’ conduct, saying they removed “weeds”:
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The department's internal affairs division has initiated an investigation, which is a start: lasvegassun.com/news/2025/ju...
But none of these officers should be anywhere near a demonstration tomorrow.
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This is not just one officer losing his cool. There are too many officers in this video to count.
If this is how @lvmpd.com officers respond to protected speech, the department has serious problems.
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As SCOTUS said in Houston v. Hill: The "freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."
www.thefire.org/supreme-cour...
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The LVMPD had issued a dispersal order three hours earlier -- several blocks away. But even if that was supposed to apply to people who had already dispersed, it's very clear the officers had no interest in enforcing it -- until someone said something an officer did not like.
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The @lvmpd.com officers:
- Call one streamer "big mouth" as they tackle him (Video 2: 0:30)
- Say: "You need to learn there's rules: don't run your mouth at me. Now you're on your face" (1:03)
- Say: "Anything else you want to say? ... Sue away. Sue away. Now you got to jail." (2:28)
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The other livestream:
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I'm at the housing crisis
I'm at the Third Amendment
I'm at the combination housing crisis Third Amendment
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The only deployment Hegseth cares about is the 1/5
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If this were the actual crisis the federal government is pretending it to be, then basic fidelity to the truth would be extremely important right now
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www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...
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Law enforcement firing projectiles at Univision crew: bsky.app/profile/shot...
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President Trump's lawyers also told a judge that the fact that 60 Minutes' interview of Kamala Harris did not include some footage that was also in one of its ads for the segment caused him both confusion and "mental anguish."
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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patiently waiting at the Court of International Trade to pick up blinker fluid
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Interested in learning more.
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it's only an attack on free speech if it comes from the congress region of washington
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not 100% sure how it works yet
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I’m not entirely sure, but I would think twice about setting foot in that city (or even Missouri) until the subpoena was withdrawn or quashed.
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Good point.
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He's asking about the degree of offense (why it can be charged as a misdemeanor and not always a felony), not its existence.
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I sent two Sunshine Law requests to the City of Riverview last week. They acknowledged receiving one of them, then stopped responding -- and haven't produced a single record.
Maybe they should check the mayor's basement.
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Now @ij.org has written to the Mayor, calling on him to withdraw the subpoena, which is a pretty obvious violation of the First Amendment. ij.org/press-releas...
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The Mayor is also now being sued by a plaintiff who alleges the Mayor encouraged him to move from Texas to Missouri by promising him a city job, then fired him when he declined the Mayor's advances. www.courts.mo.gov/fv/c/24SL-CC...
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The background: Back in 2017, the now-Mayor of Riverview pled guilty to misdemeanor impersonation of a police officer -- charges arising out of allegations he was pretending to be a police officer while in an inappropriate relationship with a teenager. www.stltoday.com/news/local/m...
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Coverage from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch here: www.stltoday.com/news/local/g...
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Bobby, hey Bob-O