How can anyone go in front of a judge and seriously ask to be able to brutalize journalists?
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nazi's do nazi things...
The Nazi’s didn’t ask a judge, they just stripped the press of their rights and installed a propaganda mouthpiece. No, this is just sad, pitiful, and weak.
LAPD: Your Honor, can I beat up your little kid?
JUDGE: No.
LAPD: aw shucks, oooook. (sulks away).
No we're still in that early fascist period where they try to keep the mask on and legitimize their brutality through the courts. What'll probably happen now is they brutalize journalists along with the rest of the public anyway and try to legitimize it after the fact, and if/when that doesn't work they'll just outright lie about the situation to gaslight everyone.
Eventually, the courts will block their most covered policies, and then they will just defy the courts, and do whatever the fuck they want. Then it will be Concentration Camp time.
Weird spelling of revolution time.
The reaction to the judge's refusal would be more like: "That isn't fair! You suck! I'm going to get even, just watch!"
It clearly demonstrates how twisted they are. They literally believe that these are reasonable requests, and it is only the evil, America-hating Lib judges who are preventing them from doing what ALL Americans want, because we all hate the media and the 1st Amendment.
Remember that whenever shit goes down - the LAPD lobbied for the right to physically harm you.
And Pigs wonder why ACAB is gaining so much traction. Oh well, more necks for the guillotine.
Dear LAPD,
FAFO assholes.
They emergency requested WHAT? They need some serious lectures on democracy and how it works. Emergency-quick.
Why would information about democracy be relevant? This is the us
Like they would listen or care
They have an average IQ of like 83, what would the point be?
If the police can't handle the size of the protests then it stops being their responsibility and is the responsibility of the government to redress the grievances that brought so many people out that it overwhelmed the police.
If they feel so overwhelmed by peaceful protests, imagine what would happen if it turned violent.
I can and it gives me feels
odd how protests in the US are peaceful until cops and agent provocateurs show up and start making trouble.
Didn’t the LAPD start a decades long program to entice kids to narc on their parents?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education
Honestly, California and LA need to do better. Nobody is telling either what kind of police they should have, and it's a disgrace that they come up with LAPD.
LA spends half its entire city budget on these fuckwits. Fully half. Every other department has to share the remaining half.
Yeah, I remember someone complaining about the cost of homeless services in the city budget and I couldn't even find it in the published numbers. It was lumped in with other social services and all of them dwarfed by the enormous cost of police and fire services.
it rivals NYPD, THATS why both are the most corrupt of any PDs, eventhough almost all are corrupt. LAPD has actual gang members in them
It's almost like money and power are terrible corrupting influences that also attract the worst humans. Weird
Maybe what we need to do to have any rights is join the LAPD and start a gang? We can answer a lot of the law enforcement entry exam questions wrong on purpose, then pick a scary racist sounding gang name and get to providing legitimate public services for the people. We can take those expensive police mrap vehicles and use them to drive old people in rest homes to the beach, or shelter undocumented workers from ICE. I think the salaries are even good-- great even. And, PENSIONS!
Who is with me? And what will our LAPD gang name be? How about 'Minority-Punishers-6-7'
Don’t forget the LA County Sheriff… just as bad, slightly different jurisdiction…
"Are we the baddies?"
WTF is wrong with the LAPD.
ACAB
They might have gotten their training from Israel
I don't expect much from Hollywood's police force.
Hydee Feldstein Soto Has an interesting wkipedia page.
Hydee Feldstein Soto (born 1958) is an American attorney and politician, who is the incumbent City Attorney of Los Angeles. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
. . . In June 2024, Michelle McGinnis, a veteran prosecutor in the City Attorney's office, filed a legal claim alleging that Feldstein Soto retaliated against her for reporting "legal and ethical violations." McGinnis claimed that Feldstein Soto based some of the office's decisions on prosecutions on "personal relationships" or "perceived political gain," including telling employees she wanted to stop prosecuting corporate defendants and singling out an individual protestor for prosecution. McGinnis reported that after objecting to these decisions, she was “subjected to a series of adverse employment actions and ultimately placed on administrative leave, removed from the office, and prohibited from further contact with office colleagues and employees."[14] In July, another employee claimed that Feldstein Soto routinely read her employees' emails without their knowledge, and two more former employees filed retaliation claims. In August, Feldstein Soto requested $500,000 from the City of Los Angeles to fund a legal response to the claims. However, the City Council only authorized $50,000.[15]
. . . Under Feldstein Soto's leadership, her office sued journalist Ben Camacho and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, a local advocacy organization, to return a flash drive containing photographs of LAPD officers. The City of Los Angeles had given Camacho the pictures in response to a public records request, and the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition subsequently published them on the website WatchTheWatchers.net as well as for download on the Internet Archive [35] A coalition of media organizations denounced the lawsuit as limiting the freedom of the press.[36] Constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky commented that "the city is on very weak legal grounds".[37] In June of 2024, The city of Los Angeles agreed to pay $300,000 in a tentative settlement to Knock LA journalist Ben Camacho and the group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition for their legal fees.
Can someone steal man the other side? This isn't making sense to me.
The public reason they gave was it is an impractical standard that would hinder their ability to protect the public, the restriction was raised by a federal case on June 16th because of the weapons used against the press last time no kings organized mass US protests in June
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/10/no-kings-rally-press-protections/
The actual reason is if journalists aren't allowed you can control the narrative on what is happening and blame victims, and indiscriminately fire tear gas and less-lethal munitions into crowds of civilians
indiscriminately fire tear gas and less-lethal munitions into crowds of civilians
Also live rounds, and then claim it was "antifa"!
They want to beat the shit out of journalists. Pretty cut and dry.
These headlines are too confusing.