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New York City to Pay $583,000 for False Arrest of Occupy Protesters
New York City has settled a lawsuit over the false arrest of more than a dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters in 2011. The city will pay $583,000 to plaintiffs detained after officers surrounded them and refused to let them disperse. Plaintiff Jennifer Peat called the settlement a victory for the right to protest.
Jennifer Peat: "Public speech, the right to dissent, these are core values that are important to our democracy, and I hope that this settlement will lead those in power and the NYPD to better respect out First Amendment rights."
The settlement is New York’s largest to date in an Occupy-related civil rights case.
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Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Thursday, June 12 2014http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/12/headlines
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