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ABUSE OF PROTESTERS IN DC DURING APRIL, 2000 PROTESTS |
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by Sam Smith, Progressive Review
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26 Jun 2001
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Follow the link to a compilation of charges against Washington, DC authorities for their illegal preemptive arrests of peaceful demonstrators and other actions against opponents of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings in April, 2000. A number of Urbana-Champaign citizens attended these demonstrations and witnessed some of these events. |
A brief excerpt:
[From charges filed in law suit by Partnership for Civil Justice against DC police and federal authorities for their handling of the April 2000 demonstrations in Washington]
"Defendants planned and implemented a strategy to disrupt plaintiffs' exercise of First Amendment rights to speak and assemble. In furtherance of this unconstitutional disruption strategy, defendants prevented protesters from demonstrating near the IMF - World Bank meetings; preemptively arrested hundreds of persons, including plaintiffs, journalists and tourists, without cause and held them in plastic handcuffs for many hours without food, water or access to bathrooms; closed plaintiffs' Convergence Center on pretext; seized, confiscated and refused to release thousands of pieces of plaintiffs' political literature, signs, banners, puppets and related property and items; harassed and intimidated plaintiffs; deployed unwarranted "pop-up police lines"; deployed an agent provocateur; disseminated misinformation falsely portraying plaintiffs as violent; and used excessive force and brutality against non-violent demonstrators."
This is followed by an extensive list of specific offenses commited by the DC police and other law enforcement organizations, along with an extensive collection of evidence that the Progressive Review has collected together at the link below. |
See also:
http://prorev.com/psa16.htm
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