San Francisco police asked a journalist to give up his source and he declined, so on Friday they raided his home and office.
After obtaining the police report related to the death of the late San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi from a confidential source, freelancer Bryan Carmody sold it to multiple Bay Area news outlets.
Leaking the police report looks to me like a pretty clear case of someone with SFPD connections trying to smear the public defender after his death, but it's not worth trampling the First Amendment (or hitting it with a sledgehammer).
In a statement, the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists said, "an attack on the rights of one journalist is an attack on the rights of all journalists."