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In reply to the discussion: I was detained for protesting Trump. Heres what the Secret Service asked me [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)If you can't comprehend that she did break the law in several ways then trying to get you to understand the rest is an exercise in futility.
She trespassed, because she was there for a purpose to do something not allowed on the property for a purpose they don't allow people to enter the property for. People are allowed in to conduct business there. They are not allowed in to protest. She knew it was not allowed and she wouldn't be allowed to go in if they knew what she was doing, as indicated by her smuggling the banner in under her skirt.
She then hung the banner up on someone else's building without permission.
She did so with intent to draw attention and create a disturbance, constituting a breach of peace or disorderly conduct.
Let's switch the roles a little bit. Would you say it was legal and ok if someone hid a banner under her shirt and used false pretenses to get into a Planned Parenthood facility and then tried to hang a banner that said "abortion is murder" in the lobby or front lobby? Same actions exactly.... is that perfectly legitimate protest or is it trespassing and disorderly conduct?
And yes, in this context looking at medical records is quite reasonable. As I said, a very high percentage of the people who have made threats on Presidents have a history of mental illness, and they have to evaluate that as part of the whole picture. To not look at them when evaluating these cases would be negligence. Look back at all the assassination attempts on US Presidents in the last 3 decades and see how many of the people have mental illness and you will see why it's relevant.