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/Alex Martellaro at KSDK: 

ST. LOUIS - The St. Louis chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has released a statement condemning the arrest of a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter downtown Sunday night.

Reporter Mike Faulk was one of 123 people who were arrested on Sunday night downtown. A vast majority of those people were charged with "failure to disperse" after vandals smashed the windows of a handful of businesses, and broke some concrete planters.

I was acting lawfully, doing my job, when St. Louis police officers assaulted me. I am not guilty of anything. #STLVerdict https://t.co/HWfMtLpbhM

— Mike Faulk (@Mike_Faulk) September 19, 2017

Faulk says he was trapped by police lines before his arrest, and that multiple officers pinned him to the ground and pushed his head into the pavement before squirting pepper spray in his face. He was held at the jail for more than 12 hours before being released on a $50 bond.

Just to reiterate so it's clear: I was not only arrested, I was assaulted. #STLVerdict

— Mike Faulk (@Mike_Faulk) September 20, 2017

Here's the entire statement from the Society of Professional Journalists:

"Journalism is the only profession protected by name in the Constitution. The First Amendment is not a whimsical academic concept to be dismissed when it becomes inconvenient - or embarrassing to the police. The chilling effect of assaulting, arresting, jailing and charging a journalist in the course of his duties cannot be understated.

Journalists in high-incident situations are already placing themselves in harm’s way to perform the public service of informing the community. They are on the ground surrounded by some who may be hostile toward them, as we also have seen over the last few days. Since his release, Faulk reportedly has been harassed and threatened online.

The extraordinary 36-hour filibuster in the Missouri Senate that ended early Wednesday morning was yet another reminder of the enlightenment of the Founding Fathers, who insisted that matters of state be kept separate from matters of religion. Despite heroic efforts by the Senate’s eight Democrats, the Senate flunked that test.

“Missouri is a very Christian state,” said Majority Leader Mike Kehoe, R-Jefferson City, after Republicans shut down the Democrats’ talk-a-thon. That’s true as far as numbers go, but Christians come in many varieties of belief and practice. It’s also irrelevant. Religion cannot and must not intrude on public policy. That is the slipperiest of slopes.

After ending the filibuster by calling the previous question, a parliamentary trick used in the Senate only 15 times since 1970, the Senate voted 23-9 (term-limited Republican Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph voted with the Democrats) to advance Senate Joint Resolution 39. It would ask Missouri voters if they want to give clergy, wedding vendors and religious organizations the right not to take part, however tangentially, in same-sex marriages.

There’s little doubt that if the measure gets on a ballot, it will pass. In 2004, Missourians gave 71 percent approval to a measure banning same-sex marriage. There is also little doubt that courts will throw it out. Baking a cake or providing flowers for a gay wedding does not impose what the Supreme Court has defined as a “substantial burden” on an individual’s ability to act on his beliefs.

What a profoundly silly issue this is, having drawn a lot of embarrassing attention to the state. It is far less important than last year’s furor over Rowan County, Ky., Clerk Kim Davis’ refusalto issue marriage licenses to gay couples, defying the Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry. Davis was a public official who had an obligation to follow the law.

Few couples will want to mess up their wedding day by giving their money to people who think they’re second-class citizens. Our guess is that very few vendors feel the tug of conscience so strongly that they’ll pass up a piece of business. Besides, like most Americans, they have adjusted. As gay Americans came out, social norms changed with lightning speed.

Besides, where does it end? What if a florist discovers that the best man at a “traditional marriage” is gay? Can he put the flowers back in the van?

“My conscience comes from the Bible, the inerrant word of the Bible,” said Sen. David Sater, R-Cassville. “It’s a conscience protection bill.”

The senator is welcome to his beliefs. But the Constitution says he needs to leave them in the parking lot. If he can’t obey the law of the land, maybe his conscience should tell him to resign.

An excellent editorial from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on #SJR39 and the heroic 39.5 hour filibuster led by Democrats in an attempt to stop the dangerous and bigoted "religious liberty" (aka bigotry in the name of religion) legislation.

Senate debates death penalty, but abolition not yet on horizon

In what one lawmaker described as a “refreshing” change, members of the Missouri Legislature called for an end to the death penalty Monday during a rare debate on the Senate floor.

Although the sponsor of a proposal to end capital punishment in Missouri said the measure is not expected to win approval this year, the more than hour-long discussion was notable because it represented the farthest…