re: #57 KGxvi
Defamation, legally speaking, usually has to specifically identify someone with the untruthful statement. Saying generally that “protesters did this or that” probably isn’t enough. Now, if they were to say this particular protester or protesters did this (and of course, they didn’t do this thing) then it would be defamation.
Which is fair. It’s only the current behavior by the LEOs that don’t inspire any semblance of trust whatsoever (especially some of their recent tactics to redefine the terminology of pepper spray).
If they are embellishing to any degree (more likely than defamation) this could wind up becoming even more of a gigantic PR nightmare for them.