San Fran Lawyer Arrested for Lawyering

[BvBPL]

San Francisco, heart of liberal America (or aorta if you think Berkley is the heart). You'd think that there'd be some kind of civil police force. You know, the kind that doesn't arrest lawyers for providing counsel to their clients in a courtroom.

You'd be wrong.

Late last month, a San Fran public defender was arrested for advising her clients not to speak with the police. Apparently, a police officer near a courtroom wanted to ask two of her clients about a burglary unrelated to the charge for which they were in court. Public defender Tillotson advised her clients not to speak with the police. The officer then arrested Tillotson for interfering w/ an arrest.

Youtube explains it all:


Link to video.

 

[Hygro]

This is the same cop who harassed the off duty black cop back in 2013.

 

[illram]

Outrageous. This has been all over my FB feed for the past couple weeks as I have some friends who work there. Public defender offices all over the country are showing solidarity for this and even the DA's office is really embarrassed over the whole thing.

SFPD is not necessarily very....progressive. Our sheriff's office is great, but our PD has a long way to go.

 

[BvBPL]

Damn it, here I was hoping Christian Slater would have whipped them into shape by now.