Raid on San Francisco reporter’s home condemned as ‘an attack’ on 1st Amendment

[Madmallard]

The San Francisco Police Department appears to have violated state and federal laws when its officers searched the San Francisco home of a journalist in an apparent bid to identify a confidential source, 1st Amendment experts said Sunday.

The officers carted away phones, computers, tablets and notebooks Friday after using a sledgehammer to try to break through Bryan Carmody’s front gate. Officers also searched his independent news organization, North Bay News, and seized a thumb drive, CDs and a police report about the death of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi.

Carmody said he suspects the searches were carried out in a bid to identify the confidential source who provided him with the police report. Two investigators visited his home a few weeks ago and “politely” pressed him to disclose the name of his source, but he said he declined.

California has a shield law that protects journalists from being held in contempt for refusing to identify their sources, said David Snyder, a lawyer and executive director of the First Amendment Coalition.

Raid on San Francisco reporter’s home condemned as ‘an attack’ on 1st Amendment

 

[Celt]

Not a fan of the typical reporters today, but freedom of the press is an essential liberty to help keep the govt in check.

 

[Deplorable Me]

He should have retained Hillary as a poison pill cyber security expert.

 

[Calculon]

Unfortunately the irony of this will likely be lost on the progressives. They love to give powers to the State to crush opposition and enforce their social and political agendas but then whine when that same State sends the same thugs to violate the parts of Constitution they do support.

All or nothing progs, all or nothing.

 

[Podmonkey]

Oh sure whenever one of them is affected it's a 1st amendment violation. But when it's a conservative no one says shit. Not even when a school is burned to silence the conservative voice. Fuck that reporter, fuck that town.
If were my orders those cops were operating on they'd have sledgehammers the reporter's brains.

 

[Acer-m14]

GO SAN FRAN .. Just doing a RED FLAG LOL ..