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Civil liberties protection is better than an $8 million settlement.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Following on the heels of a multimillion-dollar settlement over unlawful detentions during the April 2000 IMF/Word Bank protests, the District of Columbia has reached an $8 million settlement over an unlawful roundup and detention of demonstrators in Pershing Park in September 2002.  As a Washington Post article describes the Pershing Park scandal: "On the morning of Sept. 27, 2002, D.C. police monitoring protests at the IMF/World Bank meetings swept into Pershing Park and, without warning or cause, rounded up hundreds of people. Peaceful protesters, innocent bystanders and others hurrying to work were unlawfully arrested, hogtied by police and confined for hours -- their constitutional rights violated. If that weren't bad enough, it now appears that efforts to get a full accounting and redress for those events are being thwarted by what a federal judge characterized as intolerable conduct by city lawyers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).