Police Arrested Lagordiloca For Doing Journalism. No Problem, Says the Supreme Court

Police Arrested Lagordiloca For Doing Journalism. No Problem, Says the Supreme Court

Priscilla Villarreal probably did not think twice about sending the texts that got her arrested, handcuffed, and perp-walked through a room full of jubilant, laughing cops. After all, Villarreal, a citizen journalist in Laredo, Texas, was just doing one of the more mundane tasks of her job: On two separate occasions in 2017, she texted a longtime source in the city’s police department, asking him to corroborate two bits of information she’d alre…