{"id":327320,"date":"2017-09-23T01:55:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T00:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/aclu-sues-st-louis-over-police-crackdown-on-protesters\/"},"modified":"2017-09-23T01:55:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T00:55:37","slug":"aclu-sues-st-louis-over-police-crackdown-on-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/aclu-sues-st-louis-over-police-crackdown-on-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU sues St. Louis over police crackdown on protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US rights activists have sued the city of St. Louis, Missouri, over police\u2019s violent treatment of protestors during a series of rallies sparked by the acquittal of a white officer accused of killing an African American man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)\u2019s Missouri branch filed the civil rights lawsuit in US district court in St. Louis on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement named Maleeha Ahmad, Alison Dreith and &#8220;a class of similarly situated individuals&#8221; as plaintiffs who were maltreated by officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone deserves the same rights as I do. I just want peace and justice,&#8221; Ahmad, who was pepper sprayed by police without warning, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit asked the court for an order requiring St. Louis to respect the right to freedom of speech and refrain from arbitrarily declaring assemblies unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, we are seeing a lack of respect on First Amendment rights,&#8221; said Jeffrey Mittman, ACLU of Missouri\u2019s executive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/09\/23\/536112\/US-ACLU-St-Louis-Missouri\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US rights activists have sued the city of St. Louis, Missouri, over police\u2019s violent treatment of protestors during a series of rallies sparked by the acquittal of a white officer accused of killing an African American man. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)\u2019s Missouri branch filed the civil rights lawsuit in US district court in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-327320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}