Trump supporters can sue police for attacks by protesters, court says
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Supporters of presidential candidate Donald Trump who were roughed up by protesters at a June 2016 campaign rally in San Jose can sue the city and its police for allegedly putting them in danger and then failing to protect them, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
If the allegations are true, “the officers acted with deliberate indifference to a known and obvious danger” and violated the Trump supporters’ constitutional rights” said the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
After the rally at the McEnery Convention Center, police directed those in attendance to leave from a single exit. There, according to the lawsuit, they were ordered to head out onto a street where hundreds of anti-Trump protesters were waiting, even though a safer route and other exits were available.
Twenty plaintiffs in the suit said they were beaten or struck by objects thrown by the protesters, and one plaintiff said an officer told her that police had been instructed not to intervene. The plaintiffs said police arrested three people for allegedly assaulting officers, but no one for attacking Trump supporters.
Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Trump-supporters-can-sue-police-for-attacks-by-13111546.php
The decision in full in Hernandez v. San Jose is here. This was a 3-0 ruling, with two judges nominated by Democratic presidents. Dorothy Nelson, author of the decision, is a Carter nominee. William A. Fletcher is a Clinton nominee.
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I feel so sorry if they got roughed up those blood-thirsty liberals. 
What a bunch of cry babies!
Yay for them, I guess? 
that some people don't recognize sarcasm without an 
emoji announcing it! 
