Federal Court Rules That DC Punished Pro-Life Protesters More Harshly Than BLM "Protesters"

This case only deals with punishments for "defacement" -- "chalking" messages into the street.

As for punishments for violent "protests," I have a feeling I know who was arrested simply for gathering without a permit, and who was arrested for throwing soda cans filled with piss at the cops.

And yet, I bet the non-assaulting protesters got more punishing sentences. Go figure! How did that happen?

For now, a court has at least recognized that pro-life protesters were targeted by DC for disparate treatment.

Washington, D.C., unfairly enforced its "defacement" ordinances by dealing more harshly with pro-life protesters than with Black Lives Matter activists, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

"In the summer of 2020, thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the District to proclaim 'Black Lives Matter,'" the court wrote in its decision, obtained by Fox News. "Over several weeks, the protesters covered streets, sidewalks, and storefronts with paint and chalk. The markings were ubiquitous and in open violation of the District’s defacement ordinance, yet none of the protesters was arrested."

However, during the same summer in August, D.C. police arrested two pro-life protesters "for chalking 'Black Pre-Born Lives Matter' on a public sidewalk," the court also wrote.

I sure hope the file another lawsuit for arrests for assaults.

We'll have to wait and see about that.

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posted by Ace at 12:11 PM

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