Perhaps you recall the following quote:
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
-Noam Chomsky
It was in August when a dozen police officers handcuffed peaceful participants in Defend Life’s “Face the Truth” Pro-Life Tour and then denied them a reason for their arrests.
Three young female participants – including teenagers – were subjected to two rounds of strip searches after being charged with loitering, disorderly conduct, and failure to obey a lawful order, charges which later were dropped.
“The truth of the matter is that our clients were heckled, arrested, imprisoned, shackled, and strip-searched twice for exercising their First Amendment rights,” [defense attorney Daniel Cox] said.
The protesters’ lawsuit accuses Bel Air, seven police officials and Harford County of violating the rights of 18 pro-life advocates who were arrested when they held signs and shared their message along a public street.
The lawsuit explained police first ordered the pro-lifers off of county property, and later when they were complied and moved to city property, swooped down on them in seven marked police cars, shackled and jailed them, and performed the strip searches.
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