{"id":375607,"date":"2018-08-31T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/louisiana-police-sued-for-withholding-antifa-list-of-anti-trump-petitioners-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:06:44","slug":"louisiana-police-sued-for-withholding-antifa-list-of-anti-trump-petitioners-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/louisiana-police-sued-for-withholding-antifa-list-of-anti-trump-petitioners-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana police sued for withholding \u2018Antifa list\u2019 of anti-Trump petitioners \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Louisiana State Police are being sued by a Harvard lecturer over their alleged refusal to release a list of anti-Trump petitioners that they had. He says it originated from a neo-Nazi website, and was named \u201cAntifa list.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Harvard Law School lecturer Thomas Frampton is suing Louisiana State Police (LSP) over its alleged failure to release a list of thousands of citizens who had signed a petition against US President Donald Trump. According to the lawsuit, the list comes from a hoax roster that originally showed up a year ago on neo-Nazi conspiracy theories website, 8Chan, WGNO reports.<\/p>\n

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The list was discovered by New Orleans civil-rights attorney William Most. Frampton is now taking action against the LSP\u2019s Baton Rouge police department on his behalf.<\/p>\n

The LSP\u2019s alleged implication with neo-Nazi groups drew the ire of the public, some of whom went as far as to accuse the \u201cracist\u201d<\/em> police force of taking orders from white supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n

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Attorneys are suing #Louisiana<\/a> police who refuse to turn over emails relating to “antifa member list” found on 8chan and neo-Nazi websites. The list rooster itself is laughable, but what exactly do police not want the public to see? https:\/\/t.co\/HxovqbYhAd<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 It’s Going Down (@IGD_News) 30 \u0430\u0432\u0433\u0443\u0441\u0442\u0430 2018 \u0433.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

News of the lawsuit prompted others to call for the State Police to be \u201cabolished\u201d<\/em> altogether.<\/p>\n

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This is very alarming. Louisiana State Police are now getting their marching orders from the #AltRight<\/a> and the #KKK<\/a>?!?!
Lawsuit claims Louisiana State Police has \u2018antifa\u2019 roster from Neo-Nazi site https:\/\/t.co\/JFgCZAJKTu<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 #TheResistance (@BoneKnightmare) August 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Others suggested there may be some more suspicious reasons for the police not wanting the documents in the public domain.<\/p>\n

The whole case unraveled when Most demanded in May that LSP release thousands of internal emails containing hateful and racist communication, including phrases such as \u201cwhite genocide.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

LSP initially delayed the release but after a few months relented and handed out 64 emails.<\/p>\n

It was then that Most spotted a document called \u201cfull list of antifa.docx,\u201d<\/em> which had reportedly been circulated among the department\u2019s most senior officials, as well as local enforcement ones.<\/p>\n

The attorney requested the department give him the list in question, but LSP refused on the grounds that it would \u201ccompromise\u201d<\/em> an ongoing investigation which was expected to result in arrests. The police also hesitated for fear the document would blow the cover of their \u201cconfidential informant,\u201d<\/em> Most claimed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n