» In Fullerton, No First Amendment Right to Peaceably Assemble Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

» In Fullerton, No First Amendment Right to Peaceably Assemble Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

Paramilitary forces decked out in riot gear met hundreds of peaceful
demonstrators convening on the streets of Fullerton, California
yesterday, arresting citizens who filmed at the site where 37-year-old
homeless man Kelly Thomas was brutally savaged to death by no less than six officers.

Police
in riot gear line up in downtown Fullerton after a peaceful protest
over the verdict in the Kelly Thomas police beating case escalated into
confrontations between protestors and police. (Photo by: Nick Gerda)

Until then, police had cooly ignored protesters as they jammed the
streets in objection of a verdict last Monday, which acquitted the two
officers who chiefly instigated the beating that led to Thomas’ eventual
death. Protesters also called for the resignation of Fullerton Police
Chief Dan Hughes.

Moments before several demonstrators were taken into custody, police had issued a dispersal order,
calling the group an “unlawful assembly.” (In fact, the right to
peaceably assemble is one of the freedoms expressly enshrined in the
First Amendment.)

The order supposedly stemmed from reported protester violence on a
CBS-2 cameraman. “The reporter sought shelter in the news van as several
people surrounded the vehicle,” reported The Los Angeles Times, after which police began arresting people who refused to leave.