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Kim Foxx Announces Most Protest Arrests Will be Dropped

More than 3,000 Chicagoans were charged with criminal violations related to the George Floyd protests. Floyd was killed on camera when officer Daniel Chauvin kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The ensuing protests gripped the nation for the next month before quieting down in late June.   During…

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The First Amendment and the Right to Assemble

revolutionary There is a safeguard under our First Amendment for political protests. However, that safeguard does not extend to protests that lead to assault and battery (or worse) of other protesters, passersby, police officers, or news reporters. Most recently, during a political rally in Chicago, for one of the Republican…

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