Out at First: What the Carmody Case Tells Us About Press Freedoms
It was more Keystone Cops than Law and Order. On May 10, wielding a sledgehammer and drawn guns, San Francisco police raided the apartment of Bryan Carmody, a freelance videographer who had leaked a police report on the death of popular and progressive public defender Jeff Adachi. The confidential account contained salacious hints of drug use and extramarital sex.
“There’s a message implicit in the denouement of this affair, and it’s this—messing with the press carries risk.”
Posted on June 20, 2019 - 3:29pm
