Documents Reveal DC Mayor Gray, U.S. Conference of Mayors Dramatizing and Inflating Cost of Occupy DC to the District
Costs rise from $21,000 to $1.6 million in 15 days As the Mayor of the District of Columbia came to the aid of Tea Party…
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Control of the Mall’s Union Square changes hands
Reprinted from Washington Post Union Square, the photogenic parcel of the Mall that the National Park Service had envisioned as a First Amendment demonstration space,…
Nonprofit Wants to Know if CIA Is Responsible for Evicting Occupy Camps
Reprinted from SF Weekly That’s been the rumor circulated among groups of Occupiers who were rousted from their encampments over the last month — from New York to…
U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn’t Protecting Occupy Protesters’ Rights
Reprinted from Huffington Post WASHINGTON — The United Nations envoy for freedom of expression is drafting an official communication to the U.S. government demanding to…
Civil Rights Lawyers Move to Fight Occupy Evictions Nationwide
Lawyers say authorities are citing obscure codes as pretexts for crackdowns Reprinted from The Guardian | December 1, 2011 Civil rights lawyers are ramping up their…
Police Want to Stay Out of Occupy Story
Reprinted from The Washington Post The videos have been viewed millions of times: protesters on a California campus sidewalk being pepper-sprayed by police as they sit…
PCJF Responds to Police Threat to Sue Protestors
Reprinted from Huffington Post NEW YORK — A union representing 5,000 New York City Police Department sergeants blasted Occupy Wall Street protesters on Thursday and threatened…
Here are 159 minor things D.C. officers can arrest you for
Reprinted from The Washington Post An outtake from the recent controversy over expired-tag arrests: One of the reasons the District’s erstwhile policy was both objectionable and…
Occupy Wall Street Mass Arrest Resembles Infamous, Costly Police Tactic, Critics Say
Reprinted from Huffington Post October 4, 2011 WASHINGTON — Ben Becker, 27, sat in the back of a police-commandeered transit bus on Saturday night, his hands…
Citing Police Trap, Protesters File Suit
Reprinted from New York Times October 4, 2011 A group of people arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests last…
Lawsuit Filed Over Brooklyn Bridge Mass Arrest
Reprinted from Gawker, By Lauri Apple The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has filed a federal class action lawsuit against New York…
Feds must find missing evidence in Pershing Park case
Reprinted from Washington Examiner Here’s something you don’t see every day: D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department has asked the FBI to investigate it. In a recent filing…