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Queer photojournalist charged with hate crime for coverage of NYT vandalism, social media posts

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For taking pictures? She's charged with a hate crime for taking pictures? Of things that are happening. And publishing them?
Is this America?
- The charge is aggravated second degree harassment with hate crime enhancement.
  The complaint is that the defendant took pictures of the vandalism of the NYT building, where red paint was splashed on the building along with messages protesting NYT's coverage of Gaza. Think along the lines of, "you're complicit. Etc etc."
  The defendant didn't do any vandalising, just "harassed" whom? The NYT? By posting photos or messages to a social media account.
  The hate crime part is presumably charged as some kind of antisemitism angle.
  Overall this seems like a pretty slam dunk first amendment deal, but I didn't get all the facts. In order to stand up against the 1A, the harassment case has to look more like "yelling fire in a crowded theater" than it does now.
  
  They're trying to claim because they were there when some or all of the vandalism occurred, and took photos of it and republished on their social media the next day, that they were in on it. Which might make sense if they weren't a respected photojournalist.
- Pictures of people protesting Israel's ongoing genocide which the USA is funding.
Fucking Nazis doing Nazi shit. If NYT had any guts, they'd condemn this type of shit on the front page and keep up the pressure until they drop the insane charges.
- And who do you think is providing the political capital to push this prosecution?
- The NYT sold out a long time ago. I wouldn't work for them under the presumption they'd have my back. Shit, I hope everyone is keeping their sources truly anonymous, because I wouldn't put it past the editors to drop dimes to get in better with Trump.
  
  The NYT sold out a long time ago.
  Yeah like at least a hundred years ago.
Nobody seems to be talking about how these charges are coming out of the Manhattan District Attorney's office. I wonder who decided to bring these charges.
Fascists.
Wait so NYT is bringing the charges against her? Bc she saw it happening and posted a video of it?
- It's a criminal complaint by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, not the NYT.
- That’s how I read it. Sure seems like NYT wouldn’t want to put reporters at risk of criminal charges just for documenting what they see but here we apparently are.
  Also hate crime? Against whom, exactly?! Oh right, corporations are people and basically the most protected class (behind, maybe, billionaires).
  
  Its NYT, they would throw everyone the fascists are after into the camps personally to mantian their false narrative of "neutrality".
Nazis hate free speech
Who is Kahn? Confusing article.
And thus begins the use of left leaning policies as weapons. Who could've seen this coming
- "we shouldn't have laws because they might get abused" means you've gone so right you've ended up lib left (anarchy). Congratulations on completing the horseshoe.
What does queerness have to do with this?
- The Advocate is the world’s leading source of LGBTQ+ news and information. Capturing the political and cultural conversations of the community through award-winning journalism, compelling photography and video, and vital commentary, The Advocate is the queer paper of record.
- Nothing unless they’re trying to say their queerness made them a target, but the article didn’t say that

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