Police Face Excessive Force Charges for Brutality During Occupy Berkeley [View all]
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http://www.activistpost.com/2013/03/police-face-excessive-force-charges-for.html
A judge ruled last week that the police involved in the brutal 2011 crackdown on Occupy protesters at the UC Berkeley campus will face charges for excessive force, false arrest, retaliatory prosecution and abuse of process.
According to Courthouse News:
A group of 29 then sued school police, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office and the Oakland Police Department They said university officials had set in motion or ignored the police action that caused their injuries.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers last week found the allegations sufficient against some officers who were directly involved in alleged beating of protestors, but she dismissed claims against supervisors and others not directly involved.
The police attempted to have the case thrown out but the evidence of battering peaceful demonstrators was too overwhelming to drop the claim. The short video below was taken on campus the day in question and unmistakably shows that excessive force took place:
(More at the link. Whoohoo!)
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