CA Supreme Court says cops can't detain you if you want nothing to do with them. 'Acting suspiciously' won't cut it anymore. They actually have to name the 'articulable facts' observed to justify detaining you.
That thing last month where the LAPD had their lawyers send a bogus DMCA takedown request to some people selling "Fuck the LAPD" t-shirts, and the t-shirt people's lawyer sent back a letter that literally just said, "LOL, no"? Well, here comes act 2: the "LOL, no" lawyers have sent a 🔥scathing🔥 letter to the other lawyers asking why they shouldn't seek attorney's fees.
86 people and they couldn’t come up with something less stupid than holding up a bike lock sold by Columbia as evidence of “outside agitators.” Not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.
Yesterday Salt Lake City Police held a "Coffee with Cops" event at a Starbucks in downtown SLC. The goal of these events it to 'connect with the community', which would be much harder if they told people their backstory.
Two of the officers there were responsible for the killing of Nykon Brandon in August 2022. Brandon was an unarmed (he was in only shorts) homeless man who Fisher Brewing called the police on even though he had already left.