Occupy Sacramento protesters’ push to continue their amorphous yet spirited around-the-clock campaign against economic inequalities got a powerful assist Monday from an unexpected source. District Attorney Jan Scully announced Monday afternoon that her office would not file state charges against protesters arrested for refusing to disperse from an unlawful assembly after being ordered to do [...]
Posts Tagged ‘arrest’
DA won’t prosecute Occupy Sacramento protesters
Posted: October 25, 2011 in First AmendmentTags: #OCCUPYTOGETHER, arrest, police, Sacramento
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Police brutality charges sweep across the US (FINALLY!)
Posted: October 22, 2011 in First AmendmentTags: #OCCUPYTOGETHER, arrest, brutality, civil rights, demonstration, police
From The Guardian Officer Michael Daragjati had no idea that the FBI was listening to his phone calls. Otherwise he would probably not have described his arrest and detention of an innocent black New Yorker in the manner he did. Daragjati boasted to a woman friend that, while on patrol in Staten Island, he [...]