With all the complaints that President Donald Trump is an enemy to the free press, some Democrats sure seem prepared to stifle that same free press with hardly any backlash.
With all the complaints that President Donald Trump is an enemy to the free press, some Democrats sure seem prepared to stifle that same free press with hardly any backlash.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a Democrat, threatened legal action against journalists who had obtained information about police officers convicted of crimes through a public records request. Becerra argued that the information was provided to those journalists by mistake and should not be published.
The journalists, from the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley, filed perfectly legitimate public records requests seeking information about police officers. They were given a database filled with information pertaining to thousands of California cops and law enforcement applicants who had been convicted of crimes in the past 10 years, according to Mercury News.
