Federal lawsuit over clearing of Lafayette Square names DC, Park Police officers

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Source: WTOP

Jack Moore
September 2, 2020, 11:08 AM

A federal lawsuit alleging law enforcement officials violated the civil rights of protesters forcefully cleared from Lafayette Square in June with the use of chemical irritants has been amended to include the names of nearly two dozen D.C. and U.S. Park Police officers and a captain with Virginia’s Arlington County Police Department.

The initial lawsuit, filed by the ACLU of DC in June, listed President Donald Trump, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, the head of the U.S. Park Police and other federal officials as defendants. The lawsuit was amended in July to include claims that D.C. police were involved in the clearing of protesters, but didn’t name any of the officers.

The latest update to the case names D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham and 10 other D.C. officers, including Jeffery Carroll, the assistant chief of the department and the head of the department’s Homeland Security Bureau. Some of the D.C. officers are identified only by their last name.


Read more: https://wtop.com/dc/2020/09/federal-lawsuit-over-clearing-of-lafayette-square-names-dc-park-police-officers/

[CatWoman]

1. good!!!!!

[Talitha]

2. That's great news!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. The Arlington County supervisors brought the ACPD back from DC

for this kind of duty again.

{I can find those articles.}

Here you go:

County Leaders Defend ACPD Officers Who Were Recalled from D.C. Protests
by ARLnow.com June 3, 2020 at 8:45 am

(Updated at 10 a.m.) Despite what you might have seen on TV, the Arlington police officers who were sent to assist the response to protests in D.C. conducted themselves professionally, county leaders say.

In a half-hour phone interview with ARLnow, Police Chief M. Jay Farr, County Board Chair Libby Garvey and County Manager Mark Schwartz discussed the decision to send officers to help U.S. Park Police in D.C., and the subsequent decision to bring them back to Arlington — which is facing criticism from the local police association.

The origin of what has become a national news story started Saturday night, when U.S. Park Police — facing mounting officer injuries and exhaustion from guarding Lafayette Square, near the White House, amid large-scale protests over the death of George Floyd — formally made a mutual aid request for Arlington County Police to assist 0n Sunday. Such requests are common in the multi-jurisdictional D.C. region, and made for everything from suspect searches to large events like an inauguration.

“The numbers and the amount of protests had accelerated to the point that they definitely could use our assistance,” Farr said. ACPD was also asked to help fill in for USPP by patrolling the George Washington Parkway. Alexandria and smaller local jurisdictions were not asked to provide

Farr agreed to the requests, Schwartz and Garvey were informed and concurred with the decision, and on Sunday Arlington officers in riot gear made their way to the District.

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[Wellstone ruled]

4. These types of Suites will shut down

Billy the Barge and his Orange A-Hole pal. Takes a while to go through the Court system,but,it will happen.