ICE Admits It Investigated a Critic Based on Constitutionally Protected Speech

10 hours ago by CubitOom to c/news

David Streever's lawyers warn that ICE's retaliatory campaign threatens the freedom to criticize police conduct without fear of arrest.

Last June, two investigators employed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) showed up at David Streever's house in Rochester, New York. Streever was not home, so they left him a note.

That note, presented as an official warning from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is at the center of a First Amendment lawsuit that Streever filed last month, alleging that ICE agents investigated and threatened him based on his constitutionally protected criticism of their boss. This month, the government responded to Streever's lawsuit, confirming his allegations while attempting to rebut them.


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https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/4725923

CharlesDarwin 18 points 10 hours ago

As always, when the conservatives pretended to be quaking in fear at "government overreach", they were projecting their fantasies about doing it onto Democrats like Clinton, Obama, and Biden...

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