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I live in Chicago, I've passed through that street literally hundreds of times, it's a sidewalk and standing on it doesn't impede traffic. See for yourself on google maps - street view
It most certainly impedes traffic if you are a news reporter with a cameraman standing in the middle of the road.
They were not in "the middle of the road" - they were in the median strip.
I voted for your mayor for VP and I wish that she had ran for president during this current election - that doesn't mean that I have to support your ridiculous definitions.
Only the reporter and camera operator that refused to comply with Officer Ward's repeated order to move from the center meridian were arrested.
When they get arrested it appears to me they are on a sidewalk. The inside part is a cutout for drop off or ambulance parking, it's not a street. At the end of the video they are the median which apparently is OK with the officer.........
If you watch until the end, both guys "arrested" were free and standing in their original location.
Regarding the First Amendment thing, he was basically correct, if you are "inciting" you can NOT say whatever you want on a public street.
The reporters were in no way inciting, now the scene created by the cop could be.
It is more than just what is said. In this case they were referring to the freedom of the press under the First Amendment. That freedom does not permit slander or libel, and it does not give the press the freedom to go where ever they please.
If law enforcement deems that they are impeding traffic, and gives them a lawful order to move, they had better comply or be prepared to be cited with a misdemeanor.
How does a reporter and cameraman standing on a sidewalk impede traffic?
LOL - Glitch lives in a place where a moose(which I am one - the "human" Order of the Moose (Moose International) are common visitors to sidewalks - so I don't understand how he can justify this claim.
It is more than just what is said. In this case they were referring to the freedom of the press under the First Amendment. That freedom does not permit slander or libel, and it does not give the press the freedom to go where ever they please.
If law enforcement deems that they are impeding traffic, and gives them a lawful order to move, they had better comply or be prepared to be cited with a misdemeanor.
So if a cop says so it must be right? Do as your told and never question authority, no matter what.
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