On 01/21/2017 05:17 AM, Pinoaffe wrote:

"Indiana bill would allow police to shut down protests 'by any means
necessary'"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/indiana-protest-bill-police-power

daymn this is terrible

Daym this is unconstitutional.

States and municipalities can write anything down on paper they like and call it a law, but that doesn't mean it's enforceable. It does however add additional hoops people protesting have to jump through. In this case state and federal court hoops. Albeit, state courts often look at 'laws' like this in chambers and instantly redact them without even time-in-court.

Cities, aamof, often call them ordinances... Because they ORDAIN them to be so. Not because they have any legitimate standing under state or federal law. My town has literally dozens of them that are obviously not constitutional mostly aimed at the displaced workers they've literally created by their greed-based 'planning', and local courts are 'packed' with elected judges who often have little legal experience, no interest in the judicial 'carer path', rubber stamp those "ordinances" and convict people for them (none are incarcerate-able). Which is like saying if you don't like our law sue us in state court buddy.

Rr

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