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excerpts from Los Angeles Times coverage: City attorney drops all charges against anti-Trump protest group that LAPD spied on

June 27, 2020 by Refuse Fascism

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From a press release from Refuse Fascism: This week the Los Angeles City Attorney dismissed cases known as the “Freeway Cases” regarding protests that occurred in 2017. Inclusive members of our community of all ages, all races, all walks of life and every economic standing banded together to oppose the current occupant of the White House (Trump) as an evil divider of not just our community but all of America.
read press release here…
What follows below are excerpts from the LA Times coverage about the victory in this case:
By JAMES QUEALLY STAFF WRITER 
JUNE 25, 2020 4:40 PM
Anti-Trump protesters march on the 101 Freeway near downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 9, 2016.(Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

All remaining criminal charges against demonstrators who blocked a section of the 101 Freeway in protest of President Trump in 2017 have been dismissed, ending a years-long legal drama that revealed Los Angeles police placed an informant inside of a non-violent political group, officials said Thursday.

Members of the group Refuse Fascism were charged with criminal trespass in late 2017, after eight of their members blocked a section of the 101 Freeway during a protest, records show.

The LAPD launched an investigation of the group in advance of planned protests to mark the one-year anniversary of Trump’s election victory. Court records reviewed by The Times last year showed police sent an informant to infiltrate the group during four meetings at an Echo Park church the next month.

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Chantelle Hershberger, a 30-year-old Refuse Fascism member who was awaiting her third trial on the trespass charge after the past two ended in hung juries, said the dismissal of charges was especially important to her after the LAPD arrested thousands of people for violating curfews or failing to obey dispersal orders during days of protests in response to George Floyd’s murder.

“It’s needed now more than ever with Trump coming down and attacking all these Black Lives Matter protesters … we need to stand together,” she said.

read LA Times article…

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