“Even hundreds of thousands of dollars is a drop in the bucket of the police dept.'s ever increasing budget,” says lawyer Gideon Orion Oliver. “Forcing New Yorkers to pay those penalties without public transparency or accountability is not really justice.”
, destroyed their notes, and, in some cases, physically attacked them.
Following the arrests, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, one of the original defendants in the case, said that the NYPD was wrong to detain legal observers, who his office repeatedly said should be exempt from the 8 p.m. curfew. But police officials have maintained they did nothing wrong in detaining the legal observers – and the settlement does not include an admission of guilt.
Gideon Orion Oliver, one of the attorneys representing plaintiffs in the case, said the NYPD had effectively “closed ranks,” sticking to the official police line that the response to the protest wasThe settlement, Oliver added, would do little to dissuade police against future misconduct.
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