"'These charges are just completely nonsensical,' said Rachel Lederman, an attorney at the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund who is representing two Stud Alley arrestees.
'We fully expect to beat these charges, which are completely baseless, because people are charged with disobeying a dispersal order when police documents themselves reveal that no dispersal order was given,' Lederman said.
Excerpts from Mission Local. Read the full article here. "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."
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A federal court in San Francisco allowed the civil rights lawsuit challenging the San Francisco Police Department’s 2023 mass arrest to proceed as a class action in an order issued late Thursday afternoon.
“When dealing with this or any event that poses challenges, the City must change its approach to one that truly protects our community and keeps it safe,” said Rachel Lederman, senior counsel with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund.
PCJF sent a letter to the SFPD and the city’s attorneys in response to SFPD’s recent statement threatening to again make mass arrests in connection with this year’s planned Dolores Hill Bomb scheduled for July 6. PCJF urged the SFPD to change its tactics to protect the youth participating rather than target them.
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund sent a letter to the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) and the city’s attorneys in response to SFPD’s June 26, 2024, statement threatening to again make mass arrests in connection with this year’s planned Dolores Hill Bomb scheduled for July 6. PCJF urged the SFPD to change its tactics to protect the youth participating rather than target them.
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