24 August 2011

Don't intercept rights to safety | #SFBart #OpBART #freespeech

Riders of the San Francisco Bay Area subway stations experienced a significant inconvenience on Aug. 11 that may have violated their First Amendment rights.

Authorities for the Bay Area Rapid Transit, or BART, blocked cell phone signals in some subway stations in an attempt to head off protests caused by the July 3 shooting death of Charles Blair Hill by BART police, according to National Public Radio. Police say that Hill came at them with a knife, according to NPR.

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