War Protesters Win $2Million from NYC in Big Freespeech Lawsuit — A waste of the taxpayers indeed.
52 anti-war activists will get a big payout from New York City for suffering a wrongful arrest in 2003. Bloomberg and the NYPD will pay $2 Million, out of tax payer wallets, to the 52 activists. The group was protesting outside the offices of the Carlyle Group in midtown when they were wrongfully arrested by the police. With this decision it’s becoming crystal clear that the NYPD’s overly aggressive policing policy is costing tax payers millions. And we haven’t even gotten to all the RNC cases still pending which are bound to cost the city additional millions, the Critical Mass wrongful arrest class suit and then numerous individual police harassment cases related to incidents like the recent one in which a cop slammed a cyclist off his bike in Times Square. Overly aggressive policing is bad for tax payers; tax payers may want to start paying attention to how their cops are wasting their money.
I hate to be a party-pooper, but I like to see protesters. It’s always entertaining and fun. Leave them alone!
If protesting changed anything it would be illegal. Softies.
take 2 million, take out Attorneys fees and taxes and all your left with is about 250 thousand. divide that by 52 people and each one gets about $4800.
Plus they get to be on the FBI list for the rest of their lives
And they are on the FBI list anyway!
Great to see. Very happy about it.
Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly is another thing we need to defend. If it means going to court, so be it.
Yet another freedom that is left to liberals to defend.
FU Dvorak…if you like protesters why don’t you pay my state income and property taxes for me next year.
Perhaps the day will come when “assault and oppress” goes back to “protect and serve,” if only for purely economic reasons.
I like to see protesters too, even if I completely disagree it makes me happy to know that you can speak your mind in this country. Which is why all of this “free speech zone”/”detention center”/”cops posing as unruly protesters” BS pisses me off so much. . . .
Liberal judges are the last remaining protection for the US constitution.
No wander the Republicans hate them with a red hot passion.
Less than one week left to the motherlode of protests, the DNC!
Yeah, they deserve it, bunch of mandate-squandering losers.
We desperately need a third party in this country, one that gives a crap about what the people actually want.
#2, joe,
There is no tax on this as it isn’t income, it is payment for losses.
#6, lmj,
FU Dvorak…if you like protesters why don’t you pay my state income and property taxes for me next year.
Why? Is there a part of the American Constitution you dislike? If you hate America so much, why stay here?
#13 Yeah, but where to send him where there are -no- protests at all? China would like there to be none, certainly, but that doesn’t make it so. Nor Russia, lots of protests there. Even New Zealand has old tribal disputes and such.
I suppose we could send him to the Antarctica, but then he would be really living on the public dime, and living amongst a bunch of eggheads might be a little bit of a culture shock for lmj.
I know, N. Korea! Blessed land where the people are too hungry to protest. He’ll fit in fine there.
Oh damn. I thought it said “win a free monkey”. Now that would be worth it.
>>I like to see protesters
Good thing you didn’t go to Beijing for the Olympics then, Mr. C. Dvorak.
There are exactly 0.000 protesters in the “protest zone”, as all the applications were summarily denied. And the two old ladies (77 and 79) who decided to protest anyway, after repeatedly being denied a permit, were sentenced to a year of “re-education through labor” (i.e., breaking rocks in the hot sun) for their efforts
http://tinyurl.com/62jq8p
#13, Li,
I was thinking Greenland. Just plop him in the center of the island where there are NOOO protests to be heard. Except maybe his.
I’m not saying that these protesters don’t deserve some payment. But I can’t help thinking of those who suffered during the 9-11 attack, and didn’t get paid a dime. But THIS, NYC rolls over and shells out for! There’s no justice in the Big Apple.
You know, the city could’ve saved a lot of money by, say, not arresting these people.
15, you LIKE CHINA??? go for it..
WE have the RIGHT, to assemble PEACEFULLY, and demonstrate..
You can YELL and scream, and anything ELSE…
you can NOT damage property..