Excerpt from The Mission Local. Read the full article here.
“The class certification decision is one step toward finally getting justice for these young people,” said Rachel Lederman, an attorney with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, which is representing five teenagers arrested that day.
“SFPD engaged in an outrageous round-up and mass arrest of children and youth,” she said. “They kettled them between police lines and arrested them unlawfully, without a reasonable basis to believe that they had committed crimes.”