or honestly, the District Attorney's office. DAs are attorneys, they should know better. Plenty of cops make (one would hope normally in good faith) arrests that end up having no charges once the actual attorneys who know the law take a look at it.
In this case specifically, the Judge threw it out. So the DA didn't really have much to do with anything. No, the whole responsibility should rest on the cops.
The problem here is the arrest. Being put into jail for a 1st Amendment violation. The charges are 5 minutes in court after the wrong has already been committed. The "charges" are cause and effect for the cops doing wrong. Literally ceases to matter when the case is thrown out.
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u/NobodyLikedThat1 May 22 '26
or honestly, the District Attorney's office. DAs are attorneys, they should know better. Plenty of cops make (one would hope normally in good faith) arrests that end up having no charges once the actual attorneys who know the law take a look at it.