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Journalist Freed, Judge Cites City for Contempt

Thank you again, colleagues and readers, for your sleepless work of the past 48 hours to free our colleague from an illegal detention.

Authentic Journalist Jennifer Whitney is out of police custody.

Her release, and that of others, came shortly after a judge named Cataldo slapped a finding of contempt of court upon the City of New York with a fine of $1,000 per person held in violation of the court's order this morning to free these citizens. With as many as 1,700 people detained since Tuesday, that fine could add up to more than a million dollars.

And the inevitable civil lawsuits against the illegal detentions have not even begun yet.

Whitney reports that she is unharmed and of good cheer. That sound you hear across América is a collective sigh of relief from her colleagues.

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