Opinion | San Francisco police try to criminalize legitimate newsgathering

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The Post's Editorial Board: San Francisco police try to criminalize legitimate newsgathering

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By Editorial Board May 23 at 2:19 PM SEVERAL WEEKS after a reporter refused to tell police the identity of a confidential news source, his house was raided by authorities. Armed with a warrant, they used a sledgehammer to break down the front gate of his home. They handcuffed the reporter, searched his house and office, and seized computers, cameras, hard drives, notes and other materials.

“We believe the line was crossed,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said at an extraordinary news conference this week in which he said freelance journalist Bryan Carmody was a suspect in a crime. Mr. Carmody had obtained and sold to local TV stations a confidential police report related to the death of the city’s elected public defender who had been critical of police.

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guypbenson That’s what fascist states do

Fahrenthold hopefully the is more to this story but at face value that is very wrong

Fahrenthold Well when they came for David Daleiden and here’s the same WashingtonPost celebrating 15 Felony charles for journalism. The so called media was all for their arrest because their abortion baby is more important than a Free Press! MediaBias WompWomp

D or R power goes to peoples heads. thats why the system was built with checks and balances. too bad we don't follow that model anymore

Mr. Puigdemont his lexicon betrays him 'I will continue to fight' against who or who, the Spaniards of the different regions, who attacks him, no one, people want to live in pairs and work, you have a Stalinist or Hitler mentality, obsessive with detecting the power

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