【聯合晚報╱美聯社】
拉斯維加斯塗鴉遭逮捕者提告
Vegas Sidewalk-Chalk Arrests Spawn Lawsuit
The arrests of several protesters for writing anti-police messages with chalk on a sidewalk last year have spawned a federal civil rights lawsuit against Las Vegas police.
去年用粉筆在拉斯維加斯街道寫抗議警方訊息的多名抗議者遭到逮捕後，對警方提聯邦人權訴訟。
Maggie McLetchie, attorney for the plaintiffs, said Friday that chalking isn't a crime, and the people who protested in July 2013 outside Las Vegas police headquarters and a regional courthouse had a constitutional right to express themselves.
原告律師瑪姬‧麥可萊奇星期五表示，用粉筆寫字不構成犯罪，2013年7月在拉斯維加斯警察局和地區法院外抗議的民眾有憲法保障的言論自由。
Officer Laura Meltzer, a police spokeswoman, said the department doesn't comment on lawsuits.
警方發言人蘿拉‧梅爾特徹爾表示，警方不評論訴訟。
The arrests of plaintiffs Brian Ballentine, Catalino Dazo Jr. and Kelly Patterson on conspiracy and graffiti charges provided a pivot point for a debate last year about the use of police resources and power to punish department critics. A protest supporter, Gail Sacco, is also a plaintiff in the case.
去年，布萊恩‧巴倫汀、小卡塔里諾‧塔索和凱莉‧帕特森因共謀和塗鴉遭到逮捕，引發警察是否可以動用警方資源和權力懲罰批評者的辯論。聲援抗議活動的蓋兒‧薩可也是原告之一。
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