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Pittsburgh Lawyer Charged After Dropping Pants In Protest in Courthouse

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The Alleghany Sheriff’s Office decided to issue a press release about how the lawyer stood there in just his shirt and underwear. The incident at the Family Division Complex led to another lawyer having to take over for Pollock in a hearing where he was representing a client pro bono.

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Former BSU Professor Arrested For Defacing Lincoln Statue With Feces And Paint

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While it is rare for academics to be involved in such destructive protests, other professors have supported such criminal acts including Professor Sarah Parchak at the University of Alabama who supplied instructions on how to topple such monuments. Another called for strangling police.

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“True Threats”: Ninth Circuit Rules That Threats Against Mitch McConnell May Be Prosecuted

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Nevertheless, in the past, I have defended extremist views on academic freedom grounds like those of University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis, who rationalized the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Loomis also writes for the site “Lawyers, Guns, and Money.”)