The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is charging a freelance journalist with failing to follow an order to disperse issued during the city’s World Series celebrations in October 2020. March 18, 2021: Journalist Faces Charges for Lingering After Dispersal Order The seriousness of the stabbing attack which cut his neck, liver and severed nerves in his arm, didn’t deter Rushdie from offering some ideas to PEN America about which readings of his the writers, editors and artists might deliver in front of a crowd of hundreds listening on the library steps for the #StandWithSalman event Friday morning. 19, 2022: ‘We are Salman’ Supporters of Free Speech Rally in New York CityĮxactly a week after writer and journalist Salman Rushdie survived a brutal assassination attempt in Chautauqua, New York, writers, journalists and poets joined PEN America outside the New York Public Library in solidarity, defiance and public celebration of Rushdie’s art, writing and perseverance in defending the freedom of expression. Press Freedom Tracker, an open-source database of press freedom incidents, reported at the two-year mark following Floyd’s death that at least 50 journalists covering the protests had filed First Amendment lawsuits against law enforcement.Īug. Nine days after Floyd’s death, the American Civil Liberties Union posted a story characterizing the attacks on journalists as a “full-scale assault on the First Amendment freedom of the press.”Īs the attacks added up, so did the lawsuits filed on behalf of the media. The attacks raise serious questions about the law enforcement response in handling protests against police brutality and the chilling effect of that violent backlash. Those who filed lawsuits claim they were targeted, victims of excessive force and still suffer from debilitating injuries. Two years later, attorneys representing municipalities, police departments and state agencies around the country remain embroiled in litigation and negotiated settlements to compensate journalists and citizens who were injured by law enforcement as they documented the protests. Millions went into the streets during the summer of 2020 to protest the killing of George Floyd, pinned under the knee of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin and three other officers. 5, 2022: Journalists Injured by Police While Covering George Floyd Protests are Winning Large Settlements urged the federal district court to dismiss the case, arguing that the “doctrine of head-of-state immunity” applied and that the “determination is controlling and is not subject to judicial review.”ĭec. Bates noted that the lawsuit included “credible allegations of his involvement in Khashoggi’s murder.” But, the U.S. President Biden’s administration argued that the Saudi prince was immune legally as the head of state, and the federal judge heeded its suggestion. 6 against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and two of his alleged co-conspirators in the killing of journalist and democracy advocate Jamal Khashoggi. Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Saudi Crown Prince in Journalist’s KillingĪ U.S.
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