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FEDERAL COURT, July 26 -- On July 26, months after the DC Circuit's decision in US v. Munchel, DDC Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey had before him Capitol breach defendant Matthew Purse. Inner City Press tweeted it, here:

Purse's lawyer opposes GPS monitoring.

Assistant US Attorney: He lives off the grid and was found with $15,000 case.

Defense lawyer: He lives in Newport Beach.

Judge Harvey: I continue the condition of location monitoring. Also, relinquish passport. No firearm in residence. Agree to search. 

Purse: I did turn in my passport and I have the receipt for it.

  But there's more: in the "statement of facts" against Muse, he is in a PRESS helmet and jacket. Inner City Press has been sent a still of Purse standing myself, and shutting down, a Danish journalist's broadcast.

  Some say the lack of a specific statute protecting journalists, like the absence of a shield law, makes this worse. [Inner City Press, having been roughed up in and still banned from the United Nations, video here, takes this seriously.] We'll have more on this - and on the still withheld videos:

  Ealier in July, on US v. Robert Morss,  Inner City Press live tweeted here.

  Judge Harvey considered videos and purported to order to make them available to the public - but they still are not, confined to a password protected DOJ platform USAfx, see below, even as Judge Harvey detained Morss. Inner City Press wrote to Judge Harvey; his Chamber first said wait, then "Mr. Lee: If you still want access to the videos you should file a motion pursuant to the local rules."

   So for the public to have access to judicial documents the public must have or pay a DDC lawyer? Inner City Press made another filing, to Judge Harvey, DOJ and the "Coalition's" Lauren Russell at ballardspahr.com - the filing is on Inner City Press' DocumentCloud, here.

 On July 23 first Inner City Press was told that the filing would be docketed and likely approved. Then that DOJ would call (it did). For now, access only to the US v. Morss videos, not the other cases even USA v. Schwartz, 21-cr-178 (requesting pending before Judge Mehta) and USA v. EGTVEDT, 21-cr-00177-CRC (Inner City Press requests pending before Judge Cooper).

  Here are some of the Morss case videos Inner City Press immediately uploaded: I (with a red arrow pointing at a man with a tactical vest, apparently with armored plates);

II  (in which Morss says "Back up" and an officer picks up and pushes back a person, no arrest);

III  (in which Morss near end gestures to officers to move; note PRESS jacket floating through);

IV (in which Morss right at end lunges and grabs metal barrier, raised it up); and

V (in which after much shoving Morss right at end again appears, grabbing).

And, a day later, this Inner City Press music video.

  Inner City Press' understanding is that after the Media Coalition filings and the Chief Judge's response, now even media that otherwise would have access have been denied it, and the public has gotten nothing. We'll have more on this.

Inner City Press live tweeted Riley June Williams on January 25, here. 

  From January 22, song here: Thread here.

 Inner City Press' John Earle Sullivan song on SoundCloud here. 

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