Posted on 01/25/2005 5:15:19 PM PST by L_Von_Mises
WASHINGTON -- The D.C. government agreed to pay $425,000 to seven people improperly arrested during a protest demonstration in the city three years ago.
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In the first of several expected legal settlements, D.C. has agreed to pay those seven people for their improper arrests. The ACLU brought the case to court. The other protest cases could cost the city millions in settlements.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nbc4.com ...
These were some of the protestors arrested at one of the IMF/World Bank protests a couple of years ago. (ANSWER)
The judge was District Judge Emmet Sullivan.
Unbelievable
Check this out.
Now that we know they have some money it's time for us to sue them!
ANSWER should have to pay for all the extra security required to prevent the vandalism as well as for the vandalism that did occur at the very least.
It does seem the DC police really were in the wrong:
http://216.239.63.104/search?q=cache:pl0Ms6-NCgkJ:summitfreepress.com/S27washpoststory.htm+judge+emmet+sullivan+Protesters&hl=en
"...In a confidential memo to Mayor Anthony A. Williams in March, D.C. Police
Chief Charles H. Ramsey acknowledged that his assistant chief ordered
arrests of everyone in the police-cordoned park -- without giving an order
for protesters to disperse -- and that police had blocked people who wished
to leave.
Apprehending people in the crowd for failing to obey police, Ramsey wrote,
was a violation of police procedures requiring that officers see a crime
committed before making an arrest and a violation of the department's
protest handbook. His memo was included as an addendum to the report.
"This failure will not occur again, as we have taken steps to ensure
warnings are given and adequate time provided to leave the area for those
wishing to avoid arrest..." "
It sounds like it was the DC government who caved, so I can't see pointing a finger at the judge.
To be spent on pot and ... pot.
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