Posted on 06/04/2020 9:52:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Trump administration, alleging that White House officials “unlawfully conspired to violate” protesters’ rights when US security forces forcefully cleared Lafayette Park earlier this week.
Police fired smoke bombs and pepper balls at peaceful protesters in order to make way for US President Donald Trump’s walk to a photo-op at a historic church.
The lawsuit accuses US Attorney General William Barr and other senior officials of wrongful action, describing the dispersal as a “coordinated and unprovoked charge into the crowd of demonstrators.”
“The President’s shameless, unconstitutional, unprovoked and frankly criminal attack on protesters because he disagreed with their views shakes the foundation of our nation’s constitutional order,” said Scott Michelman, legal director at ACLU’s Washington DC branch. …
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When are they going to sue him for being right about HCQ?
I think it would be enlightening to know just how many ACLU
offices were looted and burned to the ground over the last
week.
Oh please.
All of the accusations and outrage over this “incident” is due to the powerful message it sent to the country, and the left went immediately apoplectic.
Continued 24/7 assault on conservatives. They are just wearing down enough Americans to completely take over the country.
Matthew Bracken wrote this in 2012, now it matters.
WHEN THE MUSIC STOPS: HOW AMERICA’S CITIES MAY EXPLODE IN VIOLENCE
oh the forced shutdown of businesses, churches, etc didn’t get their ire up but these sacred rioters.....
What are the odds that William Barr will assign a prosecutor to prosecute this case?
Good luck with pretrial evidentiary hearings, when the police will claim they were attack and within their rights to disperse a violent crowd.
Isnt that special. The ACLU has been conspicuous by their silence during the pandemic. Not even a generic press release reminding our elected officials to be mindful of protecting people’s CIVIL LIBERTIES. Their silence spoke volumes.
We are. No amount of written words will change this.
They are lunatics. The ACLU and the NLG.
William Barr can go screw himself. If our hopes are to rely on this idiot, we might as well surrender.
Wasn’t this at the time a declared curfew went into effect?
I doubt they had a permit to assemble en masse.
Atheist Communist Lawyers Union strikes again.
I heard it was about 10 minutes before the curfew.
Possibly.
The Negro College Fund. ......a mind is a terrible thing to waste. ......
I knew I should have gone to bed and not stopped back here.
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