You mean the waiting rooms?
Don Lemon
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QP!
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Re read the OP which is what I replied to.
It specifically asked if as a reporter he would have a right to be there.
He did NOT say as a person who committed the list of crimes you guys now assert.
Again using my restaurant example it would be like me asking if the person had a right to be there and order off menu and when you say yes, THEN AND ONLY THEN do i say but he shot the waitress, he does not have a right to do that
It's a business, it is open to the public. Like your local Target. If you have such a business it is your duty to create privacy (make windows mirrored, make meeting rooms private with no windows, keep records out of site from any place public, etc.).
Though they do have some protection laws that are different than Target or the Church's, like you cannot protest on their front stoop, there are distance limits, etc.
Lemon could, indeed, have left.
But considering what the ICE thugs are doing in Minnesota...the MAGA morons getting all exercised over what he did is fucking joke. The fact that they rationalize and excuse most of what the ICE thugs are doing while going apeshit over what Lemon did...is an even bigger joke.
It is what you expect of clowns, though...so it shouldn't surprise.
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I watched the full video this morning. The Pastor asked him to leave instead he continued to interview people for 7 minutes more. The whole church invasion lasted 16 minutes.
Turn ICE in for violating the FACE Act or the KKK Act see how that works for you.
QP!
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All I have seen is Damo wrongly characterizing two actions as wrong that would be perfectly legal for a reporter to do in the course of his job.
You guys stating he did "crimes" is not something anyone will simply accept without you citing something better than what Damo is getting wrong
You can come into a clinic and conduct your business there as long as it is abortion related.
And I specifically responded. Yes, so long as he was not participating he would not violate laws by simply following them in and being there.
Which doesn't change that conversations move forward, not backwards and I presented you with "yes, but" and then continued the conversation on the forward path by giving you information as to what happened and why it was not "just being there"...
In your restaurant example I would be answering, if he was entering to order off the menu he would have every right to be there, but that was never his plan.
Actually, in your restaurant example I would be stating he had every right to actually follow a criminal gang into the restaurant and film them committing a crime he knew was going to happen, as he has no duty to report because of rulings involving the first amendment... However, if he participates... like, for example, if he stuck the mic into the face of the woman at the register and yelled, give them your money! While also screaming how he had a first amendment right to do this... well, then he's no longer a reporter, he is just part of the gang with a large mouth and a camera.
I meant just keep Lemon out of the fray. He will scream, black, gay, and "I'm a journalist". Arrest everyone you can but Lemon will always have an excuse, and that could disrupt the charges against the others.
If he pre knew of the restaurant robbery was going down and bought the robbers coffee and doughnuts before the robbery and was personal friends with the robbers do you think he would be OK?
the pastor even attempted to push him toward the exit and he screamed to not touch him
Let the left waste their money on Lawyers. I'm betting Lemon's husband is loving this Lemon's asshole hasn't been this tight since Junior High.
QP!
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And I kept replying i do not know specifics so my comments were limited to the OP.
Other than when I corrected the things you tried wrongly to assert were crimes which would not be
The SCOTUS has ruled in the past that knowledge of what was going to happen is not a crime as the reporter has no duty to report.
Now. Planning it with them, participating in any way, like driving the van to get them there, helping outline entrances, etc. all of that would be part of the crime and participating. His rights end at foreknowledge and just reporting. If he did anything to help them (food might be enough, actually, not sure there), like providing a venue for their planning, or involving himself in the crime once just being there became illegal (once the pastor asked them to leave) like then pretending to interview people while working with the crowd using their intimidation to get "responses".... all of that would be illegal.
He has no duty to report, but cannot participate in any way. In order to maintain his First Amendment protections he would have to just film and let things happen. He did not.
