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The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-2 to approve a request from City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto\u2019s office to hire an outside law firm to aid the Los Angeles Police Department in its legal fight against local journalists.<\/p>\n
How we got here: In June, the Los Angeles Press Club and investigative reporting outlet Status Coup sued the police department for its treatment of journalists during anti-ICE protests<\/a>. Judge Hern\u00e1n Vera of the Central District Court of California issued an injunction in September<\/a> restricting police use of force against journalists, writing that the protests presented \u201cthe latest chapter in a long and unfortunate saga of the LAPD\u2019s use of unlawful force against members of the media.\u201d <\/p>\n The background: Ahead of October\u2019s No Kings protest, the L.A. City Attorney\u2019s Office filed an emergency motion on behalf of the LAPD asking the judge to lift the injunction, stating it should only cover journalists affiliated with the L.A. Press Club and Status Coup. The judge denied that motion.<\/p>\n Keep up with LAist.<\/p>\n If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. <\/p>\n How the council voted: Councilmembers Adrin Nazarian and Monica Rodriguez voted against the request. Councilmembers Nithya Raman and Curren Price were absent for the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline: The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-2 to approve a request from City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1610,53870,48,52,51,5015,1846,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-98676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-journalists","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-lapd","14":"tag-lawsuit","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}