Reporter Andrea Sahouri NOT GUILTY on all charges.

[Nevilledog]

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Jared Holt
@jaredlholt
Of course she's not guilty but she will never get her time or money back defending herself from this fascistic prosecution attempt for doing journalism

Trevor Timm
@trevortimm
Replying to @trevortimm
BREAKING: After less than 2 hours of deliberation, jury finds @dmregister reporter Andrea Sahouri NOT GUILTY on all charges.
12:36 PM · Mar 10, 2021

[underpants]

1. Good.

I’m a big fan.

[marble falls]

2. You mean there's a least one more Amendment in the Bill of Rights besides the Second?

[NCjack]

16. The judge could have tossed this case into the dumper and saved he

the effort of even showing up.

[EleanorR]

3. An absolute travesty this ever went to trial

Thank goodness for the not guilty verdict.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Will the dumshit prosecutor who brought the charges get reamed?

[rsdsharp]

5. I doubt her defense cost her money; time and stress, certainly.

I’m pretty sure the Register paid the legal fees. Nick Klinefeldt was US Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa under Obama, and is now a member of one of the bigger (and better) firms in Des Moines.

[SharonClark]

7. Paid by Gannett. It owns the DM Register.

[MineralMan]

6. Her name is better-known now, though.

That could help her in many ways.

[SharonClark]

8. Yep, she'll be the toast of the journalist town.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. A SLAPP heard around the world.

[maxsolomon]

10. Another "No link, just a tweet" DU OP.

I don't know who this is.

I don't know what a DM Register is.

I don't know what she was prosecuted for.

Glad she was cleared, though.

[phylny]

12. Thank you. I'm thinking the same.

[Maeve]

11. From NPR

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975672061/iowa-reporter-found-not-guilty-by-jury-after-arrest-at-black-lives-matter-protes

A Des Moines Register reporter has been found not guilty by an Iowa jury of failing to disperse and interfering with official acts. She was arrested by police last summer as she was covering a Black Lives Matter protest last summer.

Andrea Sahouri's case has drawn international concerns over its implications for press freedom amid what First Amendment advocates have said is a sharp increase in recent arrests of journalists in the U.S.


Sahouri, 25, was arrested on May 31 during a protest that took place days after George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis. She said that a police officer, identified as Luke Wilson, deliberately pepper-sprayed her and zip-tied her wrists even after she identified herself as a journalist.

[maxsolomon]

13. Thank you, Maeve.

that provides context.

[Maeve]

15. Sometimes DU works best as a team effort

When you're really following a story, you tend to assume others know it as well. I'm always glad to add context when it seems needed--I remember the case, but couldn't fit it to the name at first, either.

[Demovictory9]

14. i hope she was gofundme'd

[crickets]

17. K&R for visibility.