Using “John Doe” pseudonyms, they sued over whether the investigation into their activities should be made public. The Washington State Supreme Court ruled in February that they can be identified and that they haven’t shown that public release of their names violates their right to privacy. The state supreme court denied reconsideration earlier this month and lawyers for the four officers submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking that the names remain protected during their legal challenge.

Four officers who attended events in the nation’s capital on the day of an insurrection claimed they are protected under the state’s public records law. They say they did nothing wrong and that revealing their names would violate their privacy.

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    WAT? First, I thought this was a false flag from BLM and “antifa”. Then they were “political prisoners” and it was just a “day of love” and these assholes all got pardoned.

    Why the shame?

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      yes, pardoning them does not reset the conclusion that what they did was criminal. Trump lacks the power to reclassify it-- he can only let them out of jail. So it was a crime. Cops have no expectation of privacy while committing crimes-- pardoned for those crimes or not.

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    Just so folks know. Republicans are considering anyone a terrorist because we charged them as terrorists for Jan6th. Until I’m out of country. I won’t be saying anything to give them grounds to charge me. But I would careful about getting caught up by their spider webs.

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    Fuck theae assholes, they should be jailed for life and their names should be published and plastered everywhere