Team will be allowed to wear police protest shirts

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Team will be allowed to wear police protest shirts
| December 29, 2014 | Updated: December 29, 2014 3:53pm

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lawyer says members of a California high school basketball team can wear T-shirts reading "I Can't Breathe" during warm-ups at a tournament.

Players from Mendocino High School were previously told they could not play in the event if they wore the shirts.

However, Karen Boyd, an attorney for one of the players, said the Fort Bragg Unified School District agreed Monday to lift the ban on the phrase inspired by the last words of a New York man who died after a police officer put him in a chokehold.

Boyd says the reversal came as she prepared to file a federal court motion arguing the ban violated First Amendment rights.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Team-will-be-allowed-to-wear-police-protest-shirts-5983770.php

[dembotoz]

1. good

[LiberalFighter]

2. I would like to see the school sponsoring the tournament sanctioned by the state association.

They were putting Mendocino school at risk to their program with the reduced scheduling.

[branford]

3. I agree with the decision.

However, don't be surprised if other students choose to wear NYPD apparel or other clothing with statements in support of the police. Once the school allows political apparel at official events, content restrictions may prove untenable.

Given the wide latitude given school administrators to protect student safety and orderly administration, I'm also not sure the the lawsuit would have been a success.

[cosmicone]

4. Good - first amendment prevails n/t

[99th_Monkey]

5. Sweet. I needed a nice "feel good" piece of nooz

what with all the killer-police apologies and torture championing on the air-waves ...

WOOT!! Good for the coach and team and their lawyers.

[riversedge]

9. yes, SWEET

[WillyT]

6. K & R !!!

[Gothmog]

7. This is good news

[Sanity Claws]

8. Don't use the right wing's lingo

People are protesting police brutality, not police.
Don't buy into the shift that the right wing is selling.

[branford]

10. That was the exact title of the article,

and is required in a LBN post.

Your complaint is with the Houston Chronicle, not Judi Lynn.

[ellenrr]

11. "police brutality" not "police" is a meme that is going out to all the media

well, I guess that is easy since ALL the media is owned by a handful.

ever since the 2 nyc cops were shot, most mass news sources just say
"protests against the police".

it has become the phrase of the day.

[Orsino]

12. Or even just memorializing the dead.

As protests against brutality go, "i can't breathe" seems the gentlest possible.

It's only so reviled because it's working.