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Fuite audio : Les avocats ont loué la « beauté » des tactiques controversées de réponse aux protestations
L’enregistrement d’une session de formation juridique pour les agents de la force publique fédérale a alarmé certains défenseurs des libertés civiles.
Lawyers running a training session for officers deploying to protect besieged federal property extolled the “beauty” of a protest-response strategy that some legal experts have criticized as potentially unconstitutional, according to an audio recording obtained by POLITICO.
The training highlights the fierce legal debate over the Trump administration’s push to send federal officers into American cities, sometimes against the wishes of local officials. Images of violent clashes and of vandalism have aired nonstop in conservative media outlets, while President Donald Trump has cast his presumptive 2020 rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, as dangerously indulgent of “anarchists” and “thugs.”
Videos have shown federal officers in Portland, Ore., pulling protesters into unmarked vans to transport them for questioning. Some protesters have said they were detained without probable cause and never charged with crimes. The incidents have drawn pointed scrutiny to how the Department of Homeland Security legally defends the detention and transportation of protesters.
▻https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/federal-protest-response-tactics-390859