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Re: Shooting by Edward Jones Dome

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Just to be clear, when you said "In St. Louis it is illegal to report that any violent acts are gang violence even though a vast majority of them are." did you mean that there is a State or City ordinance that makes this illegal? And people have been prosecuted under this law? Or were you saying that it is the policy of the city to not mention gangs when talking about crime to the media? There is a big, big difference.

I have to believe you meant the latter. A google search on "St. Louis gang" turns up plenty of news stories on gang violence in St. Louis, by local media outlets. I simply can't believe that reporting these stories is illegal.
More of the latter. The local stations are not allowed to broadcast about gang violence. I live in the viewing area of all the major news networks and they never refer to it as gang violence.
Isn't that the former? You're describing a restriction imposed by the city on news media, not a choice by the city's representatives to frame the issue in one way.

From the way you describe it, it sounds like an illegal prior restraint on free speech. (There are ways in which it could be legal, but they depend on the nature of the government's interest in restricting such speech.)