Judge sides with “troublemakers,” rules OWS class action suit v. NYPD mass arrests may proceed
On Thursday, US District Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that the class action suit filed by the 700 individuals swept up in a mass arrest on Brooklyn Bridge in Octboer may proceed, denying New York Police Department officers assertion that they were entitled to qualified immunity from the arrests. The ruling opens with the following: “What a huge debt this nation owes to its ‘troublemakers.’ From Thomas Paine to Martin Luther King, Jr., they have forced