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August 26, 2014

Occupy Protesters Win Legal Victory over Brooklyn Bridge Arrests 
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Occupy Wall Street protesters have won a legal victory against the New
York City Police Department. A federal appeals court has rejected the
city's bid to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's mass arrest of
700 Occupy demonstrators on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2011. The Partnership
for Civil Justice Fund, which filed the class-action suit, called the
mass arrest "one of the largest ... mass violations of civil liberties
in U.S. history."

 

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