Judge denies ACLU motion for an order to stop police tactics

[steve2470]

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/judge-denies-aclu-motion-for-an-order-to-stop-police/article_fb22afea-3720-5b45-8d4a-2d923e793925.html

ST. LOUIS • A federal judge Monday night denied a motion by the American Civil Liberties Union for a temporary restraining order to stop police from requiring people to keep moving on sidewalks and thoroughfares in Ferguson unless they're gathered in a designated protest area.

The ACLU suit said that large numbers of demonstrators had taken to the streets and sidewalks to express their opinions "about ...the relationship between police and the community, the frequency with which police officers shoot unarmed black men and the militarization of local police forces."

The suit by the ACLU was filed Monday against St. Louis County, Highway Patrol Superintendent Ronald Replogle and five individual unnamed police officers. The ACLU says that the practice orders "people who are violating no law ... to refrain from gathering or standing for more than five seconds on public sidewalks."

The suit also said that the measure places "restrictions on the ability of the media to witness and report on unfolding events."

[yeoman6987]

1. I am seriously in the Twilight Zone

On July 15, 1994, Perry was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri



A Democratic Governor is not exactly doing the greatest job with this situation and now a Democratic nominated Judge is going against the ACLU.....Yieks!!!!

[onecaliberal]

2. Nice republican legal justification for denying

People their constitutional rights. Class action civil rights lawsuit seems in order.

[HooptieWagon]

3. Thats what I'm saying.

Bury those mother-fuckers in so many lawsuits they'll spend a fortune just defending them. We've got assault and battery on journalists, illegal arrest and detention, depriving peep of constitutional rights, excessive police force, etc. Multiply by a couple thousand. Plus there might be a DOJ investigation into long term civil rights violations. That mayor and chief gonna be crapping their drawers.

[BadgerKid]

4. Might as well define the "free speech zones" to lie outside of Ferguson.

Ugh.

[woo me with science]

5. Just a goddamn piece of paper...

again.