Excerpt from Mission Local. Read the full article here.
“…at least 17 children and parents told officers that they were bystanders who had no idea why they were under arrest. While officers don’t have to believe someone who says they’re innocent, that should have raised alarms that there was no probable cause to detain them, Lederman said.
Probable cause must be determined individual by individual, or, in this case, “kid by kid,” Emilly Zhu, a legal fellow at the ACLU of northern California, wrote in a press statement. Or else the arrests are “guilt by association.”
The judge’s decision about whether to issue a judgement or take the case to a jury could come anytime in the following months.”