So far, two OWS protestors have gone to trial and both times the police's version of events has been found to be false. We are very pleased to see New York's courts protecting the rights of the people!
"The police arrested people willy-nilly without any determination that they had actually committed the offenses that they were charged with," Stolar told the Voice afterwards. "That's what tends to criminalize protest activity."
Today's ruling, coupled with Tuesday's, have presented police efforts to criminalize protest activity "a temporary roadblock," Stolar said, adding that the profusion of cameras at Occupy Wall Street protests have made it harder for police to get away with fabricating stories to justify arrests.
In Second Occupy Wall Street Protest Trial, Police Claims Again Rejected (villiagevoice.com)
In The First Occupy Wall Street Protest Trial, Acquittal (villiagevoice.com)
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First Amendment Rights!
The police are trying to make it a crime to be an activists and to protest our government about our grievences. This is protected in the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights which our law enforcement and government has seem to decided to totaly ignore and throw out as a right of the people. I am an activist and the First Amendment is not only my weapon of choice but it is my right as an American and I will never let any person take that away from me as long as I can draw a breath I shall be heard! Follow me on twitter @bighempy and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/joshuashanemcguire