What did distress me, however, was several days of muddle over what exactly was the D.C. police policy on supplying uniformed escorts to private citizens already privileged by prominence and wealth.

Did D.C. police confuse escorting Charlie Sheen with "fresh pursuit of a fleeing felon"?

The charges against Ray McGovern have been dropped and the government has decided not to proceed with its prosecution.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her speech at George Washington University condemning governments that arrest protestors, 71-year-old Ray McGovern was grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police, brutalized and left bleeding in jail.

In less than a week after we cheered the outbreak of democracy in Egypt, we witnessed the spectacle of retired CIA analyst and Veteran for Peace Ray McGovern being dragged out of Hillary Clinton's press conference yesterday for a silent, peaceful protest.

After eight years of litigation on behalf of the nearly 400 people who were arrested illegally in September 2002, the Pershing Park mass arrest case has entered a new phase as 15 key police officials and lawyers, including former D.

U.S. Federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued final approval to an $8.25 million class action settlement of an eight-year-long and hard-fought litigation battle over the mass arrests of nearly 400 people in Pershing Park in Washington, D.