Federal judges declare cops can arbitrarily arrest hundreds of people; citizens have no freedom of assembly
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Saturday, March 21, 2015
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed an earlier decision that allowed participants in the so-called “Occupy Wall Street” movement to sue New York City police following a mass arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge four years ago.
As reported by Courthouse News, a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 to dismiss the lawsuit without so much as even a hearing on the case.
The report further stated:
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, representing the protesters for the Washington-based group Partnership for Civil Justice, said in a phone interview that the judges did not give her clients a chance to argue their case before making their “extraordinary” decision and that the protestors are “evaluating all avenues of response” for an appeal.
“I think it’s a very telling ruling in the political context in America when the people of the country are crying out for police reform that the judiciary here is unwilling to hold the police accountable for the egregious violation of people’s rights,” the attorney told the news service.
The suit stems from the NYPD’s mass arrest of more than 700 protestors who gathered on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1, 2011. At the time police officials said that the mass gathering was a well-defined case of civil disobedience, but protestors accused officers in their class action suit that they “led the march on the bridge” so they could arrest them for disorderly conduct.
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