‘Using the FBI to target Americans for exercising their First Amendment rights directly undermines our nation’s foundational values,’ Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California says
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President Donald Trump allegedly ordered an investigation of activists in Los Angeles after watching a video of protesters using megaphones to warn people about immigration enforcement activities, according to a report Tuesday.
Then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, now a federal appeals judge, also allegedly told the head of the FBI's LA field office to open a probe of demonstrations outside the city's federal building, NBC News said.
The accusations stem from a whistleblower complaint by a former FBI supervisor who said the directives made early last year violated bureau policies and the demonstrators' First Amendment rights to free speech and to assemble peaceably, NBC News said.
Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California, who on Monday sent the...
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