http://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/raid-on-san-francisco-reporter-s-home-condemned-as-an/article_fa172899-09e0-5c25-bde6-b36bd8bf2a63.html
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.
"It's pretty plainly unlawful," said Snyder, who noted that the statute governing search warrants expressly forbids police from seizing items covered by the shield law.
"They are trying to root out the source, and that's the core of what California's journalist shield law protects," he said. "It's something you'd expect out of an authoritarian regime, not the city of San Francisco." ...
ROTFLMAO! Good grief, you libtards are SO willfully STUPID! Who runs ... and has run for decades, now ... the City of San Francisco, David? DEMOCRATS - hardcore LEFTIST Democrats, that's who. In the past 100 years, what are the prime examples of oppressive "authoritarian regimes," eh? Communist Russia, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Communist China, Communist North Korea, Communist Vietnam, Communist Cuba, Communist Kampuchea, and Socialist Venezuela - all murderous, leftist regimes who DESPISED and regularly used atrocities to DESTROY the inalienable rights of individual citizens. These very same totalitarian regimes are admired and adored by a great many Democrats, Socialists, and other assorted libtards here in the United States. So, David - you ridiculously thick-headed dumbass - the City of San Francisco is run by Democrats who desperately want to run it as a totalitarian regime just like their beloved forefathers in Russia, Italy, Germany, China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Kampuchea, and Venezuela. You asked for it when you voted for freedom-hating Democrats, so that's what you got, you idiot.
Who hacked James Rosen's (Fox News reporter) personal e-mails? Who wire-tapped The Associated Press? Who hacked Sharyl Attkisson's (CBS reporter) computer? Barry Soetoro and the press-hating thugs in his administration, that's who. But, libtard snowflakes do not want to recognize the undeniable facts that are right in front of their faces ... no ... they would rather have infantile meltdowns over President Trump publicly mocking the obviously biased FAKE NEWS spewed by the libtard propaganda networks as some kind of "attack" on the freedom of the press. PUHLEEEEEASE ... you libtards are such moronic buffoons!
As for the story about the death of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi ...
Carmody was part of a throng of journalists chasing details about the Feb. 22 death of Adachi, 59. He ultimately obtained an incident report that detailed the public defender's final moments.
The document, as reported by KGO-TV in San Francisco, said Adachi had dinner with a woman named Caterina, who was not his wife, then returned to an apartment he was using for the weekend. The woman called 911 for emergency medical help, and Adachi was rushed to the hospital.
Later that night, officers went to the apartment and found "alcohol, cannabis-infused gummies and syringes believed to have been used by the paramedics," the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The city medical examiner would later conclude that Adachi died of an accidental overdose of cocaine and alcohol. ...
Sounds like Adachi simply bit off more than he could chew.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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