Forum Post: 113 Arrested in Chicago
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 23, 2011, 11:37 a.m. EST by malikov
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(CHICAGO) — Anti-Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a downtown park in noisy but peaceful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 arrests early Sunday, authorities said. Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua Kaunert vowed after the arrests that protests would continue in the Midwest city. "We're not going anywhere. There are still plenty of us," Kaunert told The Associated Press after the arrests, which took police more than an hour to complete. Elsewhere in the nation, police reported 11 arrests overnight in the Occupy Cincinnati protests. Police said those arrested had stayed in that city's Fountain Square after Sunday's 3 a.m. closing time and each was charged with criminal trespass.
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good. good.
In Sacramento, a protester in a wheelchair suffering from cerebral palsy was arrested along with a handful of others several nights in a row only to be released 30 minutes later with a citation, as the City of Sacramento has no facilities for the disabled (a clear breach of the Americans with Disabilities Act). Meanwhile, the other protesters were handcuffed and brought to the jail cells and kept for several hours.
If we had lots of money (ref: http://superunion.org ) we could, probably, sue them.