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In a rare public rebuke, the Los Angeles City Council pressed the city’s top lawyer to abandon her attempt to halt a federal judge’s order prohibiting LAPD officers from targeting journalists with crowd control weapons.

One day before “No Kings” demonstrations against the Trump administration were set to launch in L.A. and elsewhere, the council voted 12-0 to direct City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto to withdraw her request to lift the order. Hours later, Feldstein Soto’s legal team did just that, informing the court it was pulling back its request.

Since June, the city has been hit with dozens of legal claims from protesters and journalists who reported that LAPD officers used excess

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