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The following statement by ACLU of Southern California staff attorney Peter Bibring is in response to the L.A. Police Department’s investigation into excessive use of force at MacArthur Park on May 1. The results of the investigation were presented at a special meeting of the L.A. Police Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 9:

The ACLU/SC and the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olsen have discovered urgent new information about the extent of forcible drugging of immigrants by the Department of Homeland Security and the policies that govern it. The information is detailed in legal papers being filed Tuesday, October 9, that seek an immediate stop to the government’s program of drugging immigrants with powerful anti-psychotic medicine against their will and without proper medical oversight.

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Read the ACLU/SC’s letter to Chapman University on behalf of Sigma Alpha Mu-affiliated students (pdf)

COSTA MESA – Orange County Superior Court Judge Kelly MacEachern dismissed criminal charges against Coyotl Tezcatlipoca, an Orange Coast College student at the center of a much-publicized free-speech case in Costa Mesa. The judge questioned prosecutor Danny Peelman’s credentials and found that the local private attorney had not been appointed or sworn in as a public prosecutor as required by the California Constitution. Judge MacEachern stated that Mr. Peelman’s failure to follow the law amounted to ‘a denial of due process’ for Tezcatlipoca.