#^U.S. Citizen Detained AGAIN—Even After Showing REAL ID



There was nothing illegal about Leo driving the truck, and officers should have let him go as soon as he identified himself and showed his REAL ID.
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#^He Was Already in Jail—So Why Did SWAT Raid Her Home?



An ordinary, quiet morning turned into a nightmare for Cathy George. More than a dozen heavily armed law enforcement officers stormed her apartment, looking for a fugitive who had no connection to Cathy and who was already in custody.
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#^Man Arrested for Filming Police Wins Lawsuit



“I was one man with a camera filming the precise actions of the police,” said Justin Pulliam, a citizen journalist who covers police activity and local politics.

“If the police have nothing to hide, it shouldn’t have been a big deal; however, they went to extreme lengths to stop my reporting.”

Now, Judge George Hanks of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has ruled: “Pulliam’s arrest was motivated by Rollins’s hostility towards the content of Pulliam’s speech” and the arrest was in “retaliation for the exercise of his First Amendment rights of free speech as a citizen and journalist and to discourage this speech based on its content.”
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#^One city is using STRAY CATS to SEIZE property?



Why is one New Jersey town using stray cats to seize a family-owned tire shop and four homes?
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#^He Criticized the Mayor. They Arrested Him. He WON.



A federal judge in Iowa ruled that the city of Newton, Iowa, violated Noah Petersen’s constitutional rights when city leaders arrested him for critiquing the police and calling them “fascists” during a city council meeting. The decision is a clear warning to government officials nationwide: in America, you don’t get to call the cops on your critics. If you do, not even qualified immunity can save you.

“Today’s ruling is a major win for government accountability,” said Institute for Justice (IJ) Attorney James Knight. “From small towns to federal agents, government officials don’t get to use the power of arrest to punish protected speech. The First Amendment doesn’t allow public meetings to become praise-only zones—and it certainly doesn’t allow officials to weaponize the police against dissent.”
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