PCJF just had our Twitter account suspended while working on collecting contact information from arrested protesters.

Ben Becker, 27, sat in the back of a police-commandeered transit bus on Saturday night, his hands placed tightly behind his back in plastic cuffs. This was a scenario Becker knew well.

A group of people arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge as part of the Occupy Wall Street protests last week filed a suit against New York City on Tuesday, alleging that officers had violated their constitutional rights by luring them into a trap and then arresting them.

The Washington, D.C.-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund has filed a federal class action lawsuit against New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, the city, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, and a bunch of unidentified cops and law enforcement agents over Saturday's controversial Brooklyn Bridge mass arrest.

PCJF attorneys have filed a class action lawsuit charging mass violations of constitutional rights in the trap and detain mass arrest of demonstrators on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, October 1.

Read the complaint filed for the Brooklyn Bridge mass arrest of Oct. 1, 2011.