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Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis has a problem with the First Amendment

Peoria Mayor Jim Ardis ordered the raid of a residence where it was believed that a now-suspended Twitter account parodying Ardis was being operated from.

The raid resulted in the arrest of one individual, but not for anything connected to the parody Twitter account:

The warrant, filed in Peoria County Circuit Court, details a two- to three-week process whereby Peoria police tracked down the…