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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts) Sat Jul 16, 2016, 07:29 AM Jul 2016

Trump rally attendees sue San Jose, Mayor Liccardo and police chief

SAN JOSE -- Fourteen people who attended a Donald Trump rally in San Jose last month filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against the city, mayor and police chief, claiming city leaders failed to protect them from assaults by protesters as they left the event.

"Law-abiding citizens leaving the Trump rally were victimized by being forced by armed police to walk into a riot in full swing where many were assaulted while police looked on," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Harmeet K. Dhillon, who is also the vice chair of the California Republican Party.

Dhillon says her clients range from a 14-year-old allegedly assaulted by two different individuals and denied assistance by the San Jose Fire Department to a 71-year-old woman who said her glasses were ripped off and destroyed by three rioters.

The lawsuit, which also named a handful of alleged assailants and 38 unknown rioters, claims the city's failure to restrain protesters opposed to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee violated Trump supporters' rights to free speech and peaceful assembly. It seeks compensation and injunctive relief for injuries they suffered during the rally.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30128911/trump-rally-attendees-sue-san-jose-mayor-liccardo

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Trump rally attendees sue San Jose, Mayor Liccardo and police chief (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2016 OP

N/s JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #1

The police did not "force them to walk into a riot." SunSeeker Jul 2016 #2

JustAnotherGen

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1. N/s

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Sat Jul 16, 2016, 10:03 AM

Jul 2016

My tablet is acting up - can't get around paste -

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Liccardo, a backer of Hillary Clinton, also was accused of ordering officers to stand down as Trump supporters were being attacked, a claim police Chief Eddie Garcia has called "absurd." Liccardo, he added, called him the night of the rally, but didn't tell him how to handle the event.

"I have a lot of control over my officers, but my officers do not know the meaning of the term stand down," Garcia said at the time. "They would not follow that order nor would I ever expect them to."

Liccardo said Thursday he has no authority to issue such an order.

"The ludicrous accusation that I somehow directed the police department to 'stand down' at the rally is utterly false," he said in a statement.

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I believe him.

SunSeeker

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2. The police did not "force them to walk into a riot."

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jul 16, 2016, 12:48 PM

Jul 2016

It was Trump who picked that venue, intentionally inflaming a heavily latino local populace in a very blue part of California. It was Trump, knowing there were angry protesters outside, who forced his dumbass followers onto the streets after the event with their insultung, racism-spewing t-shirts and hats calling for a wall, etc. Are they suing Donald?

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