First Amendment lawyer Isabella Salomo Nascimento explains what you can and can't do at a protest

Isabella Salomão Nascimento is an associate attorney in the media and entertainment group at Ballard Spahr LLP .

She says First Amendment rights are at their zenith when you’re on public property like sidewalks, roads, or other open to the public government areas.

The line is a little fuzzy on whether at that point officers should just be targeting those discrete actors.

Isabella Nascimento : You have a right to record anything that is publicly visible, open to the public.

She says if you are not a citizen, you have a First Amendment right to go and participate in a protest.

Do you know what rights undocumented individuals have to have to participate in the protest?.

Isabella Nascimento : Dispersal orders are not always only given when they are lawful or when an assembly is deemed unlawful properly.

In Minnesota , a preliminary injunction entered by a court here that recognized that a dispersal order issued to an assembly — as part of an unlawful assembly declaration — does not apply to the media.

In many areas of the country, there has not necessarily been any distinction between the rights of the press versus the public.