In San Francisco, an attack on press freedoms and echoes of autocracy

Yashar Ali is a contributor to HuffPost and New York Magazine. Follow him @yashar. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles at CNN.

On May 10, San Francisco police officers carrying a sledge hammer, and with their guns drawn, raided the home of a journalist named Bryan Carmody. They handcuffed him for six hours and seized tens of thousands of dollars of his equipment along with his confidential work material. They had one goal: to learn who had leaked a police report to him about the death of longtime San Francisco public defender Jeffrey Adachi.

Carmody had refused weeks earlier to reveal his source to the police department's internal affairs division. Because he had promised the source confidentiality, he was ethically bound to keep that pledge. Journalists protect their sources with virtually no exceptions, even if it means going to prison.

yashar Opinion We need to remember that now a days freedom of speech only applies to liberals. If Republicans were to cry out first ammendmemt rights violations they would be condemned.

yashar Opinion OH MY GOD, this country is fucked.

yashar Opinion This article is like a distress signal to all journalists and should be taken seriously.

ggreenwald yashar Opinion First they came for Assange... FreeAssange

yashar Opinion Everyone involved including AGBecerra and LondonBreed should immediately resign for violating the First Amendment to the Constitution.

yashar Opinion Freedom of the press is under attack on too many fronts. We have to stand up for it even when it doesn’t seem pretty. That’s when it needs protection most. They will chip away at it by choosing the unpopular until little by little they’ve come for the everyday.

yashar Opinion I don’t understand. So the reporter didn’t report on the leaked material himself, he just sold it to 3 tv stations? Am I reading that correctly?

yashar Opinion

ggreenwald yashar Opinion The reporter tried to sell or sold the leaked police report to other media sources. Once he made money from the leaked report he lost his protection.

ggreenwald yashar Opinion Says Cnn The World Wide Leader in FakeNews whos been lying about Trump 24/7 for 2yrs? Thats rich. PJNET MAGA

yashar Opinion Hard for me to muster sympathy for Bryan Carmody, who had a choice to not profit off PD info that served no purpose other than to tarnish Jeffrey Adachi's memory. Protecting a leaker to hurt a family seems like a crap move by a 'journalist'. Long live the press. 😏

yashar Opinion Well, here is the endgame you dopes have been pushing for, enjoy.

yashar Opinion Liberals eating their own...

yashar Opinion If it’s on his computer, would it also be on the police computer of the guy who leaked it?

yashar Opinion The other things happening in San Francisco are hyperdermic needles and human excrement.

yashar Opinion Pluralism Foe😟🙁☹️😟🙁☹️

oliverdarcy yashar Opinion Press only notices this when a press member gets subject to SFrisco autocracy which has been controlling citizens' freedoms with such, for years...lol

yashar Opinion THATS SOME ROMANCE KILL IT B4 TIME

yashar Opinion It’s only an attack on press freedoms if it does not involve a conservative voice.... you libtards have a very selective outrage when it comes to these things🤔

yashar Opinion San Francisco? I thought that was a liberal paradise? Where you can assault conservatives, shame people for driving SUV's and crap on the sidewalks.

yashar Opinion Boy that Republican Management in that City sure cracks down on the Press on? Oh wait nevermind. Another fascist democrat-controlled City.

yashar Opinion وكالة أعماق رمضان فيديو جندي من الجيش السوري أسره مقاتلو الدولة الإسلامية في هجومهم على ثكنة عسكرية في بادية تدمر أمس صحيفة النبأ / العدد 182 احذف←$فسيعمل الرابط↑

yashar Opinion Liberals doing what they accuse Trump of doing. Shows what they really wanted.

yashar Opinion Aren't you guys pushing suppression, or have we found a way to parse 1A along with 2A?

yashar Opinion want to get a drink later?

yashar Opinion Great column, but one concern: Why the 'credentialed journalist' distinction? Are independent/non-credentialed journos not protected?

yashar Opinion How

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