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🚨 Washington State's Attorney General is facing backlash after labeling citizen journalists' investigations into alleged Somali daycare fraud as "harassment" and "unsafe behavior." ◽️​AG Statement: Attorney General Nick Brown issued a warning against "unsubstantiated claims of fraud," specifically calling out those filming near daycares or knocking on doors as...

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🚨BREAKING: AG Brown warned with up to 1-year in federal prison by DOJ if his office impedes citizen journalist in Somali fraud probe! WA AG Nick Brown’s statement on reports of Somali-run home-based daycare providers being harassed alleging that “showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation” is being met with stern criticism by U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet K. Dhillon. Brown’s statement was posted on X approximately 4 hours after WA independent investigative journalists Cam Higby and Jonathan Choe published their exposé on Tuesday, Dec. 30. Both Cam Higby 🇺🇸 and Jonathan Choe, along with Nick shirley attended President Donald J Trump’s a roundtable at the White House on Oct. 8 to address what administration officials described as a growing epidemic of left-wing political violence. In response to a Libs of TikTok post highlighting AG Brown’s statement encouraging “anyone experiencing threats or harassment to either contact local law enforcement or our [WA AG] office’s Hate Crimes & Bias Incident Hotline at 1-855-225-1010,” AAG Dhillon affirmed her office’s commitment to protecting a free press from “state officials” who “threaten” journalist. 🟥AAG DHILLON: “ANY state official who chills or threatens to chill a journalist’s 1A rights will have some ‘splainin to do. DOJ Civil Rights Division takes potential violations of 18 USC § 242 seriously! Govern yourselves accordingly!” AG Nick Brown then responded to Dhillon, stating that he hasn’t “threatened anyone, especially not journalists.” Brown, in a display of ironic sarcasm, included snapshots from various news headlines of President Donald J Trump allegedly threatening media and journalists. 🟥AG BROWN: “Not sure how you square your newfound concern for journalists with working for Donald Trump. We quite obviously haven’t threatened anyone, especially not journalists. But maybe you need to have a hard conversation with your bosses.” 18 U.S.C. § 242 is a federal criminal statute that makes it illegal for anyone acting under color of law (such as government officials or law enforcement) to willfully deprive a person of their constitutional rights, privileges, or immunities. The First Amendment explicitly safeguards freedom of the press. Investigative journalists rely on public records and on-site interviews and observations. If state officials label these activities as "harassment" or direct people to hate crimes hotlines without justification, it could be interpreted by the courts as an attempt to stifle a free press. Courts have applied § 242 in civil rights cases involving suppression of a free press. US Assistant AG Dhillon is warning Washington state AG Brown of legal action against him by alleging his actions or future actions may be interpreted by the DOJ as misusing his official power to deter reporting fraud in Washington state which could expose him and other elected officials to federal criminal scrutiny under this statute. The penalty for a basic offense of journalists’ 1A rights is a fine up to $100,000 and/or federal imprisonment for up to one year. If bodily injury is involved, a fine up to $250,000 and/or federal imprisonment for up to 10 years. If death, attempted murder, or kidnapping of a journalist, a fine up to $250,000 and/or federal imprisonment for up to 10 years. Fines are higher for organizations found in violation of journalists’ 1A rights.

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