{"id":47212,"date":"2021-06-19T02:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T06:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opensource.im\/uncategorized\/nessel-grand-traverse-county-commissioner-did-not-break-the-law-interlochen.php"},"modified":"2021-06-19T02:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T06:08:23","slug":"nessel-grand-traverse-county-commissioner-did-not-break-the-law-interlochen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/first-amendment\/nessel-grand-traverse-county-commissioner-did-not-break-the-law-interlochen.php","title":{"rendered":"Nessel: Grand Traverse County commissioner did not break the law &#8211; Interlochen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Grand Traverse County Commissioner Ron Clous will not face criminal charges for displaying a rifle during a virtual public meeting in January.<\/p>\n<p>Clous got the gun and held it on screen in response to a comment from resident Patricia Macintosh. She asked commissioners to denounce the Proud Boys, after members of the group were allowed to voice support for a 2nd Amendment resolution during an earlier meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Attorney General Dana Nesel released a statement Friday saying after reviewing the incident, she decided Commissioner Clous didnt break any laws.<\/p>\n<p>I find Commissioner Clous action to be reprehensible and irresponsible, but not illegal, she wrote. While he will not face accountability in a court room, Commissioner Clous constituents have the power to make their opinions clear the next time hes up for re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Clous and Grand Traverse County still face a lawsuit filed in Federal Court by Macintosh.<\/p>\n<p>She claims the rifle incident amounted to retaliation and violates her First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Clous did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interlochenpublicradio.org\/news\/2021-06-18\/nessel-grand-traverse-county-commissioner-did-not-break-the-law\" title=\"Nessel: Grand Traverse County commissioner did not break the law - Interlochen\">Nessel: Grand Traverse County commissioner did not break the law - Interlochen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Grand Traverse County Commissioner Ron Clous will not face criminal charges for displaying a rifle during a virtual public meeting in January. Clous got the gun and held it on screen in response to a comment from resident Patricia Macintosh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}