BREAKING: The Selah Alliance for Equality (S.A.F.E.) and Selah residents filed a lawsuit against the City of Selah, its Mayor, and its City Administrator for censoring the free speech of Selah residents in violation of the First Amendment.
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As nationwide protests grew in the wake of George Floyd’s death, a number of Selah residents gathered to demonstrate publicly and placed temporary chalk messages and art in support of racial equality in public places throughout the city.
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BUT, in response, Selah city officials made statements and took actions indicating that the exercise of free speech in support of the Black Lives Matter movement was unwelcome, wrongfully singling out the chalk messages for erasure, designating them as “graffiti.”
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But that's not all. Keep reading
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We shouldn't have to be saying this, but: Free speech is a constitutional right and the city of Selah is responsible for protecting it. Read the full release below.https://www.aclu-wa.org/news/selah-alliance-equality-and-selah-residents-file-lawsuit-against-city-selah-censoring-black …
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