[ExI] rubber bullets

[William Flynn Wallace]

Which brings up the question:  why do you have to get a permit to exercise
your constitutional rights?   bill w

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:25 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I care, of course. I think it is the police department which is sued
> rather than individual officers, because I believe that since the police
> are acting on orders that the fault falls mainly on the one who issued the
> order.
>
> The police department will, of course, plain that the protestors who were
> tear gassed and shot were: not peaceful, refusing an order to disperse, did
> not have a permit for assembly, were violating social distancing, or
> resisting arrest.
>
> Did you know you can be tried and convicted or resisting arrest even if
> they don’t file any other charges against you? That you have no right to
> protest an unlawful order by police? One is supposed to comply with the
> unlawful order and then sue.
>
> I do not think a police officer, under his own power, can deny your 1st
> amendment right. The coordinated actions of a police department would,
> however, possibly deny you that right.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Jun 15, 2020, at 6:03 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Is anyone concerned that rubber bullets and tear gas are being used
> against peaceful protesters exercising their 1st Amendment rights?  Are the
> police immune to lawsuits claiming denial of constitutional rights?  If so,
> that is one of the things we need to change.
>
> bill w
>
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