[Imc-dc-editorial] ACLU Files Class-Action Lawsuit for Sept 2002 mass arrests

[old school]

This is from the ACLU press release.
I say we use it.
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March 27, 2003
WASHINGTON- In a lawsuit filed in federal court today,
the American Civil Liberties Union of the National
Capital Area charged police officials with
deliberately violating the constitutional rights of
more than 400 peaceful antiwar demonstrators and
bystanders by directing them into a police trap and
then arresting them although they had not violated the
law.

"In this country, the government is not supposed to
arrest you unless you break the law," said Arthur
Spitzer, Legal Director of the ACLU of the National
Capital Area. "But the evidence will show that the
police deliberately rounded up hundreds of people who
had not broken any law, many of whom were not even
involved in the demonstration. No one in the
neighborhood was safe from the lawless conduct of the
D.C. police."

http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=60201&group=webcast

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