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In reply to the discussion: CeaseFire employee/gang member charged with kidnapping and rape [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)18. There's one crypto-fascist who liked to use his "own private army"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=5076002&mesg_id=5076002
to spy on peaceful Muslims:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024830968
stop and frisk people 'walking while brown/black':
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022553815
and arrest people for exercising their right to assembly:
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/12529659
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 02:32 AM
Star Member eridani (41,561 posts)
New York City Agrees to Largest Occupy Wall Street Settlement Ever
http://www.nationofchange.org/new-york-city-agrees-largest-occupy-wall-street-settlement-ever-1402499824
During Occupy Wall Streets heyday in 2011 and 2012, the NYPD made them pay, again and again and again, for exercising their right to assembly and free speech. Nearly three years later, New York City taxpayers are still paying for the NYPD's approach to policing lawful protest. Today, lawyers announced the largest settlement with New York City yet, with the city paying out $583,024 to 14 protesters who were arrested for disorderly conduct on January 1, 2012.
Sources familiar with todays settlement said that that the case was ready to go to trial before Judge Shira Scheindlin until a few months ago, when, while being deposed for the trial, a senior NYPD official who was present during the arrests was unable to point out in videos of the event a single moment when any of the defendants committed any act of disorderly conduct.
According to the protesters' complaint, the demonstrators were part of a march passing through the East Village that night when police ordered them to disperse.
This was a constitutionally unlawful order, said Wylie Stecklow, a lawyer for the protesters, at a press conference at City Hall today. The march was not yet blocking the sidewalk, and just minutes before this unlawful dispersal order, the police had ordered the marchers to keep walking.
But he vocally denounces guns in the hands of the non-elite, so some DUers find
him just peachy...
to spy on peaceful Muslims:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024830968
stop and frisk people 'walking while brown/black':
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022553815
and arrest people for exercising their right to assembly:
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/12529659
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 02:32 AM
Star Member eridani (41,561 posts)
New York City Agrees to Largest Occupy Wall Street Settlement Ever
http://www.nationofchange.org/new-york-city-agrees-largest-occupy-wall-street-settlement-ever-1402499824
During Occupy Wall Streets heyday in 2011 and 2012, the NYPD made them pay, again and again and again, for exercising their right to assembly and free speech. Nearly three years later, New York City taxpayers are still paying for the NYPD's approach to policing lawful protest. Today, lawyers announced the largest settlement with New York City yet, with the city paying out $583,024 to 14 protesters who were arrested for disorderly conduct on January 1, 2012.
Sources familiar with todays settlement said that that the case was ready to go to trial before Judge Shira Scheindlin until a few months ago, when, while being deposed for the trial, a senior NYPD official who was present during the arrests was unable to point out in videos of the event a single moment when any of the defendants committed any act of disorderly conduct.
According to the protesters' complaint, the demonstrators were part of a march passing through the East Village that night when police ordered them to disperse.
This was a constitutionally unlawful order, said Wylie Stecklow, a lawyer for the protesters, at a press conference at City Hall today. The march was not yet blocking the sidewalk, and just minutes before this unlawful dispersal order, the police had ordered the marchers to keep walking.
But he vocally denounces guns in the hands of the non-elite, so some DUers find
him just peachy...
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Well, he would be a subject matter expert on criminal use of firearms. (nt)
blueridge3210
Jul 2014
#1
So do you expect every employer to monitor their employee's activities outside of work?
Bjorn Against
Jul 2014
#5
I guess I should rephrase that, we don't know if it was immediate but it did happen shortly after
Bjorn Against
Jul 2014
#9
orly? The daily google-dump is nothing more than an effort to highlight the misdeeds of one person
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2014
#41
He was fired. Period. He is no longer an employee, your subject line is false.
Bjorn Against
Jul 2014
#6
Fine. I'll happily stipulate that CeaseFire is no worse than the NRA
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2014
#8
CeaseFire is run by well-meaning ninnies, NRA's board is downright malevolent
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2014
#11
I don't like everyone on the board, but that does not make them criminals.
Bjorn Against
Jul 2014
#15
I just showed you a few he's committed (not that he'll likely be charged with any)
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2014
#23
So you now acknowledge there is no evidence of wrongdoing and they do some good work
Bjorn Against
Jul 2014
#30
Well I suppose we now know the real reason for his opposition to armed individuals.
ileus
Jul 2014
#34
excluding those crimes punishable by imprisonment related to the regulation of business practices
gejohnston
Jul 2014
#48