Civil Liberties Defense Center Files Suit to Protect the Free Press From Police Violence
July 22, 2020
July 22, 2020
EUGENE, Oregon, July 22 -- The Civil Liberties Defense Center issued the following news release:
CLDC attorneys filed suit in the U.S. Federal District Court in Eugene, alleging that the City of Eugene and members of the Eugene Police Department (EPD) violated journalist Henry Houston's Constitutional rights when unidentified police officers in an armored vehicle shot Mr. Houston with impact and chemical munitions, despite him clearly and repeatedly identifying himself as media.
CLDC attorneys filed suit in the U.S. Federal District Court in Eugene, alleging that the City of Eugene and members of the Eugene Police Department (EPD) violated journalist Henry Houston's Constitutional rights when unidentified police officers in an armored vehicle shot Mr. Houston with impact and chemical munitions, despite him clearly and repeatedly identifying himself as media.