James “James Freeman” Springer (Freeman) announced in a late Friday livestream that his lawyer, Blair Dunn, had sent a notice of intent to sue to the Lincoln County, New Mexico, Sheriff’s department over Thursday’s incident in which Freeman was trespassed from all public facilities in the county.
Freeman will reportedly be represented by Dunn’s legal partner, attorney Zach Cook, for the actual lawsuit and promised again on Friday that the lawsuit would be filed swiftly in retribution for the decision by Lincoln County officials to ban him from public property last week.
The YouTuber was originally seeking the return of a woman named Courtney’s driver’s license after she was arrested for fleeing a traffic stop earlier in the week. Freeman claimed that the arrest was in retaliation for Courtney’s accusations against a Lincoln County sheriff’s deputy and not for Courtney’s alleged actions in passing a school bus while it was letting off children then fleeing from a traffic stop when she was pulled over by police for the incident.
Freeman also claimed that his First Amendment freedom of speech and freedom of the press were violated in his trespass, claiming that he was conducting an investigation as he was livestreaming which resulted in the negative action taken against him.
In a surprise addition, Freeman claimed on the same lawsuit that he would be filing a second lawsuit against the sheriff’s office of an unspecified Texas town as Freeman was “physically grabbed and body checked” by a police officer while recording his attempt to do an open records request.
Freeman offered no further details (or video) of the incident, but claims he is already represented by attorney CJ Grisham in the planned lawsuit.
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