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Title: Man Arrested for Criticizing Police in E-Mail to Louisiana Paper
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Associated Press
URL Source: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/e ... .jsp?vnu_content_id=1003965200
Published: Apr 22, 2009
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2009-04-22 19:27:51 by Brian S
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LAFAYETTE, La. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a Louisiana man who claims he was arrested for criticizing a police chief in an e-mail to a newspaper. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court accuses Mamou police chief Greg Dupuis and several of his officers of violating the civil rights of 52-year-old Bobby Felix Simmons. In an e-mail he sent to The Ville Platte Gazette last year, Simmons asked why the newspaper hadn't reported on allegations of improper conduct by Dupuis. Simmons was later arrested at his home in Franklin and charged with criminal defamation. Dupuis denies violating Simmons' civil rights, but the ACLU claims the chief retaliated against their client for exercising his right to free speech.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
This will not be good for the police, no matter if the charge is right or wrong... the public has the right, to express it's opinions against a public official..
POS, LEO pondscum bump
This is right out of the playbook of the governors that the British Crown foisted upon this continent to fatten themselves on the colonies.
Join 2x4 Tuesdays & protect your RKBA. If that's how it was worded, and those are the charges for his arrest, his civil rights were violated. I'm thinking also, if there was a private communication between the two, and only the two (as opposed to an "advertisement" taken out stating there were actual rather than alleged improper conduct), an arrest for that is also a clear violation of his civil rights.
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dockets.justia.com/docket...09cv00663/case_id-111018/ City of Mamou, Big Pig Greg Dupuis, and little pigs Todd Ortis, Albert Moore, David Charlie and Lucas Lavergne are the ones in the suit. NOt that the names mean much, I just like to name names. Maybe someone Out There knows them and will remember their names for a later date... I'd like to find a copy of that email. .
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charged with criminal defamation
#2. To: Brian S, all (#0)
don't tase me bro, bump
#3. To: Refinersfire (#1)
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#4. To: Brian S (#0)
Simmons asked why the newspaper hadn't reported on allegations of improper conduct by Dupuis. Simmons was later arrested at his home in Franklin and charged with criminal defamation.
~ Robert the Brus - "The Declaration of Arbroath"
#5. To: Brian S, *libertarians* (#0)
but the sheiks would shriek and the barons would bellow if hemp was made legal...and people became mellow
#6. To: Brian S, All (#0)
(Edited)
Greg Dupuis and several of his officers
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