Breaking: ND Prosecutor Seeks "Riot" Charges Against Amy Goodman For Reporting On Pipeline Protest

[Earth_First]

Source: Democracy Now!

(Bismarck, North Dakota–October 15, 2016 ) A North Dakota state prosecutor has sought to charge award-winning journalist Amy Goodman with participating in a "riot" for filming an attack on Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters. The new charge comes after the prosecutor dropped criminal trespassing charges.

State’s Attorney Ladd R Erickson filed the new charges on Friday before District Judge John Grinsteiner who will decide on Monday (October 17) whether probable cause exists for the riot charge.

Goodman has travelled to North Dakota to face the charges and will appear at Morton County court on Monday at 1:30 pm local time (CDT) if the charges are approved.

“I came back to North Dakota to fight a trespass charge. They saw that they could never make that charge stick, so now they want to charge me with rioting, " said Goodman. "I wasn’t trespassing, I wasn’t engaging in a riot, I was doing my job as a journalist by covering a violent attack on Native American protesters."



Read more: http://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/15/breaking_nd_prosecutor_seeks_riot_charges

[Foggyhill]

1. Wow freedom of the press truly is under siege

[wordpix]

27. The Trumpian philosophy of dictatorial governance and me, me, me is strong at all levels

I'm a local volunteer journalist/public information specialist. I took on this role two decades ago b/c the newspapers in the area were going downhill; the coverage of local and regional issues was steadily decreasing as the papers got swallowed up by large corporations. Meanwhile, as the region grew in population, the financial, environmental and social problems got worse.

I have been ignored when asking questions publicly, harassed, called names in papers and online, and this continues currently. I've always tried to go high while they go low and just stick to the facts I dig up. It's not easy to deal with these R's who have ruled my town and region this entire time.

I'm behind Amy 100%. Please stand with journalists.

[riversedge]

2. This procecutor should seek Riot charges against Trump

[Plucketeer]

5. Whatcha wanna bet

if Trump's elected, this guy will be a shoe-in for AG???

[uppityperson]

3. I am imagining how little freedom of the press Trump wants. K&R for journalists

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. This will be one that goes to the Supreme Court if they succeed in railroading her.

We need to win the White House and Senate.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. A dictionary should help dismiss such tangential interpretation of the law rather quickly

[Wibly]

7. The objective here

is not to file charges that will be upheld in court, but to bankrupt DU by forcing them to defend against these charges.
Law enforcement, in the employ of Big Oil, is looking to keep Goodman and her organization so busy in court they don't have time or resources to provide news coverage of events.
We should all cut cheques to DU to help defend against this malicious persecution.

[vanlassie]

13. DN?

[LiberalLovinLug]

19. She should counter sue

For lost time at work, and unlawful prosecution. Love to see her win something like that.

[treestar]

8. That's brave of her

And should shine a lot of light on the situation.

[ananda]

9. I just made a donation to Democracy Now!

I hope it helps.

[forest444]

10. North Dakota's Fatty Dalrymple.

The Idi Amin of governors.

[heaven05]

11. she is one of my heroes

for a long time. My good friend is a friend of hers..

[lillypaddle]

12. Wow

and yet trump ...

[red dog 1]

14. K&R!

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Unbelievable!

I hope the judge isn't as dumb as the prosecutor is.

[turbinetree]

15. So showing hired goons with dogs attacking human beings that we want our sacred land back

and to show the world that this is "our land" in the first place is now a riot, and the brave "woman" showing this is now considered anarchist.

I just wonder if the "governor, the district judge, and the prosecutor", had there ancestral grave site disturbed and it was shown to the world would they not also want the world to see this being reported, there foot fits in there mouth of hypocrisy, when they speak.

Where are the three congressional representatives on this "riot", that a brave "woman and many others reported and saw this crime------no where

They are nothing more than hypocrites of the corporation, they are nothing more than the 2016 Manifest Destiny and Doctrine of Discovery enablers, and they were caught and the human rights abuse was noted and they didn't and don't like it one bit



(Wado) Thank you, Amy Goodman, I will send you some money to help DU (Democracy Now) and too your other fine reporters and also to the to speak about human rights, because of the Principles

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[sinkingfeeling]

16. Guess we all now know who really runs the country...oil companies.

[TonyPDX]

17. Well, all of our other rights are being relitigated, why not freedom of the press?

Let's finally define what constitutes journalism and news in our time, so it's distinguishable from commentary and entertainment. I'd welcome that reckoning.

[AlbertCat]

18. How DARE she!!!!!

She's supposed to only be talking about Trump!

Jesus!

[still_one]

20. They don't have a case, and I would be shocked if the Judge ruled there was probable cause

If the judge was stupid enough allow this to go forward, depending on the outcome, this would get overturned if it had to go all the way to the Supreme Court

Another reason why those progressives who say they won't vote for the Democratic nominee, need to have their head examined

[wordpix]

29. "all the way to the Supreme Court" ---recall that it will be 4-4 in all likelihood

b/c the repukes if they retain Congressional control will not allow appointment of another SCOTUS justice under a D president.

[still_one]

30. It would have to go through an appeal process first, and by that time if it got to the SC

a new SC justice will have filled the spot.

I also don't think it would get that far

It is too obvious a blatant abuse of power, and violates the Fourteenth Amendment among other things

[barbtries]

21. this is insane.

can she get the justice department involved in this? ACLU?

[wallyworld2]

22. This should be epic

If it gets onto the M$M, it could be epic.

Amy is not one to back down when it comes to things like this.

What they are calling a crime is what rational people call reporting the news.

[wordpix]

28. in repuke world, reporting facts publicly is a crime or "all lies"

as Trumpster would say

[malthaussen]

23. Clear to see which side the ND government is on.

When do the felony conspiracy charges get added? They're already using them.

-- Mal

[riderinthestorm]

24. Outrageous. Please donate to Democracy Now to help Amy fight this nt

[warrprayer]

25. Damn it

I will, of course.

Amy is the real thing.

Can't stand by and watch this happen without helping her.

Jailing real journalists while the network puppets collect huge checks for parroting the investor class does not sit well with me.

[Achilleaze]

26. I sense a "cause célèbre" in the making

Wiki: A cause célèbre (/ˈkɔːz səˈlɛb/; French: [koz selɛbʁ], famous case; plural causes célèbres), is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate.[1] The term is particularly used in connection with celebrated legal cases.[2]

The term is a French phrase in common usage in English.