First Amendment guarantees their right to peaceful assembly.
Once they get violent, though, they lose First Amendment protection.
The video in the article starts a little earlier. The cop you see tackling the guy above actually ran over to the guy first. Given all the disgusting police behavior I've seen in these protests and in the time since phones with video capability became ubiquitous, I'm not going to take their word that they were attacked first.
PS: and even if things went the way you seem to have assumed they went, no, being violent does not mean you lose your First Amendment protection. It means you're likely committing one or more crimes, but it doesn't mean you can then be punished for speech.
This is nuts...they're protesting in a residential neighborhood over the death of a kid that was killed two years ago by police after he robbed two banks with airsoft rifle.
Police and protesters clash in Cottonwood Heights; officers detain several demonstrators - The Salt Lake Tribune
It's one thing for the police to kill someone without cause....but it's a whole different ballgame when someone is killed while committing a crime. I have no sympathy for these protesters.
If you initiate violence against a trained LEO, you get what you get.More disgusting police thuggery.
One officer in the video is visible as he lifts a young woman into the air and slams her onto the lawn in front of a home. The woman says, “I can’t see,” three times as officers are detaining her.
Beating down a woman. DP's you-know-whos will love that. I mean, it's not happening to them or their own. It's happening to their political enemies.
It didn't have anything to do with Mormons.
If you want to quibble about details, their son also was not killed by police. Their son elected to stop being treated after he was paralyzed from the neck down.
How did he get paralyzed...and be sure not to quibble.
Actually they are not certain according to the lawsuit the family filed, but since you were there, let us know....
You're quibbling...he was shot in the back while trying to flee.
Over the years, there's been a lot of complaints about the heavy handedness of the Cottonwood Heights police even though there's not a lot of crime in that area...so maybe they should be defunded...the extra money can go to treating drug addiction and the mentally ill of which there is plenty of.
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