{"id":76429,"date":"2023-08-15T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T16:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/dc-selectively-enforced-defacement-laws-against-blm-pro-life-group-federal-appeals-court-rules-76429"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T16:27:08","slug":"dc-selectively-enforced-defacement-laws-against-blm-pro-life-group-federal-appeals-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/dc-selectively-enforced-defacement-laws-against-blm-pro-life-group-federal-appeals-court-rules-76429","title":{"rendered":"DC &#8216;selectively enforced&#8217; defacement laws against BLM, pro-life group, federal appeals court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/judiciary\/abortion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, D.C.,<\/a> unevenly enforced its &#8220;defacement&#8221; ordinances against anti-abortion groups.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that city authorities treated pro-life protestors more harshly than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/antifa-members-threatens-to-burn-down-dc-during-black-lives-matter-march\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Lives Matter activists<\/a> and reversed a lower court&#8217;s dismissal of a complaint filed by the Frederick Douglass Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the summer of 2020, thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the District to proclaim &#8216;Black Lives Matter,'&#8221; the court wrote in its decision. &#8220;Over several weeks, the protesters covered streets, sidewalks, and storefronts with paint and chalk. The markings were ubiquitous and in open violation of the District\u2019s defacement ordinance, yet none of the protesters were arrested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/washington-dc-abortion-pregnancy-vandalized\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WASHINGTON DC PRO-LIFE PREGNANCY CENTER VANDALIZED WITH RED PAINT, EGGS, &#8216;REVENGE&#8217; MESSAGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The opinion continues, &#8220;During the same summer, District police officers arrested two pro-life advocates in a smaller protest for chalking &#8216;Black Pre-Born Lives Matter&#8217; on a public sidewalk. The organizers of the smaller protest, the Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America (collectively &#8216;the Foundation&#8217;), sued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Frederick Douglass Foundation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/pro-life-activists-arrested-chalking-planned-parenthood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Students for Life of America<\/a> filed a lawsuit against the city after two pro-life activists were arrested on Aug. 1, 2020, for chalk graffiti reading &#8220;Black Pre-Born Lives Matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/pentagon-plans-shake-dcs-national-guard-criticized-response-protests-jan-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>THE PENTAGON PLANS TO SHAKE UP DC&#8217;S NATIONAL GUARD, CRITICIZED FOR ITS RESPONSE TO PROTESTS, JAN. 6<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The foundation alleged that the protesters&#8217; First and Fifth Amendment rights were violated \u2014 the group acknowledged that the chalk graffiti violated city ordinances but argued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, D.C.&#8217;s<\/a> selective enforcement of the laws was unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation pointed to the government&#8217;s tacit approval of Black Lives Matter-themed graffiti throughout the city during the summer of 2020 as evidence that the ordinances were being selectively enforced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/climate-protesters-arrested-capitol-hill-placed-restraints-amid-irs-whistleblower-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CLIMATE PROTESTERS ARRESTED ON CAPITOL HILL, PLACED IN RESTRAINTS AMID IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HEARING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lower district court previously dismissed the foundation&#8217;s lawsuit \u2014 but the appeals court ruled Tuesday to overturn that dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The First Amendment prohibits discrimination on the basis of viewpoint irrespective of the government\u2019s motive. We hold the Foundation has plausibly alleged the District discriminated on the basis of viewpoint in the selective enforcement of its defacement ordinance,&#8221; the court wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The case has been remanded for further proceedings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/dc-selectively-enforced-defacement-laws-blm-pro-life-group-federal-appeals-court-rules\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/dc-selectively-enforced-defacement-laws-blm-pro-life-group-federal-appeals-court-rules <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the city of Washington, D.C., unevenly enforced its &#8220;defacement&#8221; ordinances against anti-abortion groups.\u00a0 The court ruled that city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-76429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DC &#039;selectively enforced&#039; 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