The Post's Editorial Board: San Francisco police try to criminalize legitimate newsgathering
By Editorial Board May 23 at 2:19 PM SEVERAL WEEKS after a reporter refused to tell police the identity of a confidential news source, his house was raided by authorities. Armed with a warrant, they used a sledgehammer to break down the front gate of his home. They handcuffed the reporter, searched his house and office, and seized computers, cameras, hard drives, notes and other materials.
“We believe the line was crossed,” San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott said at an extraordinary news conference this week in which he said freelance journalist Bryan Carmody was a suspect in a crime. Mr. Carmody had obtained and sold to local TV stations a confidential police report related to the death of the city’s elected public defender who had been critical of police.
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