Gee, I wonder why the LAPD is asking a judge to temporarily suspend the court order forbidding them from using force against the press?
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Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts the use of force against the press.

The injunction creates “undefined and operationally impracticable standards that expose the city and its officers to contempt for good-faith actions taken to protect the public,” according to lawyers for the city, including City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, and the police department.

#LosAngeles #ACAB #FirstAmendment #LAPD #UseOfForce #LosAngelesPoliceDepartment #Protests #Press #FreedomOfThePress #FirstAmendment

https://laist.com/news/politics/lapd-use-of-force-against-press-no-kings-protests

AP:

Members of the #NationalGuard faced off w/ #protesters in #LosAngeles on Sun, & #TearGas was fired at a growing crowd that gathered outside a federal complex hours after the federal troops arrived in the city on #Trump’s orders.

The confrontation broke out in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in #LA, as a group of demonstrators SHOUTED INSULTS at the guard lined shoulder to shoulder behind riot shields.

Tear gas for insults.

#law#UseOfForce#RulesOfEngagement#Proportionality

AP:

Members of the #NationalGuard faced off w/ #protesters in #LosAngeles on Sun, & #TearGas was fired at a growing crowd that gathered outside a federal complex hours after the federal troops arrived in the city on #Trump’s orders.

The confrontation broke out in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in #LA, as a group of demonstrators SHOUTED INSULTS at the guard lined shoulder to shoulder behind riot shields.

Tear gas for insults.

#law#UseOfForce#RulesOfEngagement#Proportionality

A MSNBC reporter on the scene said the #NationalGuard fired the #TearGas when #protesters were only approaching them. Approaching. That’s it. No other provocation.

#Trump #law#Title10#PosseComitatusAct#UseOfForce#RulesOfEngagement#Proportionality #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#California#USTroops #immigration

The principle of #proportionality is a #legal doctrine that requires any action taken by authorities, especially in the context of surveillance & #LawEnforcement, to be #proportionate to the objective being pursued.

#Law enforcement officers should use only the amount of force necessary to mitigate an incident, make an arrest, or protect themselves or others from harm.

#Trump#UseOfForce#RulesOfEngagement#NationalGuard#LosAngeles #protests #protesters #tyranny
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/overview-police-use-force

“If they spit, we hit.”

That is 100% NOT how law enforcement is supposed to respond.

The #UseOfForce is limited by #proportionality.

#law#Title10#PosseComitatusAct #democracy#RightToProtest#FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny#Gestapo#AmericanAutocracy#LosAngeles#California#NationalGuard#USTroops #immigration