Mark Feigin was charged with “harassment” for voicing his opinions on a Los Angeles mosque’s social media page, calling in death threats and attempting to discourage investigators from testifying against him in 2016. Almost two years and over $300,000 later, he’s still fighting to clear his name after the charges were finally dropped.
Feigin was arrested when Kamala Harris, now a U.S. senator, served as California’s attorney general. At the time, the Attorney General’s office charged Feigin with one felony count of criminal threats with a special hate crime allegation. Under that charge, he faced six years in prison.
Feigin openly admits to having what some might label “harsh opinions,” but he says he knows the difference between a threat and a constitutionally protected opinion and is careful to never cross that line.
Members of the mosque called the police and told them they thought the call was made by Feigin, due to his Facebook posts directed at them. Based solely on that information and the revelation that Feigin was a gun owner, the LAPD filed for and obtained a search warrant for Feigin’s home and phone records. However, they didn’t wait to conduct the search before arresting him. A day after the search warrants were obtained, Feigin was surrounded outside his home at gunpoint.
After a SWAT-style raid of his home and a…
