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Getty Ben Shapiro has responded after the Livingston City Commission shut down production on his Daily Wire banner’s ICE film “Pawn Shop,” which has since resumed filming. The political commentator slammed the decision as “content discrimination” and “a violation of the First Amendment.”
“Let us be clear: there’s only one reason the city commissioners ruled they were going to stop our production on the street: politics, pure and simple, and they pretty much admitted it,” Shapiro said. “One commissioner named Cindy Daniels said, quote, ‘I’m not willing to sacrifice the resources of the safety, the security of the mental health of our community. Absolutely not. This wasn’t a Hallmark film. This wasn’t, you know, Christmastime in Livingston, and it wasn’t a romantic story.’ Well, I mean, I wasn’t aware that we had to fulfill your idea of what the story required.”
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