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Judge Slams DOJ’s Protest Probe | Spokane News
A federal judge just slammed the Department of Justice for filing a request for Portland police protest footage in bad faith, calling their motives suspect and their timing suspicious. The DOJ claimed they were enforcing a 2014 settlement about police handling mental health crises, but the judge saw their move as a political maneuver to pressure Portland police after the city blocked the National Guard. The judge also highlighted contradictions — the DOJ had previously opposed expanding that settlement to cover racial bias — and noted threatening DOJ statements that looked more like…
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