{"id":682,"date":"2012-01-24T19:56:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T03:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/?p=682"},"modified":"2019-05-16T18:18:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T01:18:34","slug":"victory-for-schlossberg-and-cop-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/victory-for-schlossberg-and-cop-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory for Schlossberg and Cop Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cldc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SCHLOSSBERGNORED-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-716\" src=\"https:\/\/cldc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SCHLOSSBERGNORED-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>On Monday, January 23rd, a federal jury ruled that Sergeant Solesbee used excessive force in an arrest of environmental activist Josh Schlossberg. The CLDC has been working tirelessly for years on Schlossberg&#8217;s case and is pleased with the verdict. We hope that this case will be a precedent in protecting the rights of activists to film police officers. We are also pleased to see that an officer&#8217;s excessive use of force goes punished and that an activist brutalized is awarded reparations.<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link for the summary of the court&#8217;s finding: <a href=\"https:\/\/cldc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Westlaw-Schlossberg-1.pdf\">Westlaw Schlossberg<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Read more<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bryan Denson, &#8220;<a title=\"Eugene verdict clarifies legal protections for protesters who turn video cameras on police\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/pacific-northwest-news\/2012\/01\/eugene_verdict_clarifies_law_p.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eugene verdict clarifies legal protections for protesters who turn video cameras on police<\/a>,&#8221; <em>The Oregonian<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jack Moran, &#8220;<a title=\"Jury finds officer used excessive force in protester\u2019s arrest \" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120215230327\/http:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/web\/newslocalnews\/27506651-41\/schlossberg-solesbee-jury-arrest-police.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jury finds officer used excessive force in protester\u2019s arrest<\/a>,&#8221; <em>The Register-Guard<\/em>, January 24, 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, January 23rd, a federal jury ruled that Sergeant Solesbee used excessive force in an arrest of environmental activist Josh Schlossberg. The CLDC has been working tirelessly for <a title=\"Police Misconduct\" href=\"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/justice-in-action\/former-cases\/police-misconduct-2\/\">years<\/a> on Schlossberg&#8217;s case and is pleased with the verdict. We hope that this case will be a precedent in protecting the rights of activists to film police officers.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[27,18,21,39],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-activist-defense","tag-copwatch","tag-police-misconduct","tag-schlossberg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}