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Related: About this forumJudge throws out Occupy Chicago arrests, Rahm will appeal
http://www.wlsam.com/article.asp?id=2542418Story by 89 WLS reporter Bill Cameron
CHICAGO (WLS) - Mayor Emanuel is explaining why he'll appeal yesterday's ruling by a judge tossing last year's charges against Occupy Chicago protesters for violating the Grant Park curfew.
The judge ruled against the city because the police used the Grant Park curfew against the Occupy protesters but didn't use it against the thousands of people who came to the park to celebrate Barack Obama's election in 2008.
Apples and oranges, says the mayor. Here's how he argues Barack Obama's supporters were in the park legally and the occupy protesters weren't.
(Two more sentences at the link.)
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Judge throws out Occupy Chicago arrests, Rahm will appeal (Original Post)
Fire Walk With Me
Sep 2012
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Warpy
(114,467 posts)1. Rahm needs to reregister as a Republican.
That is all.
AnOhioan
(2,894 posts)2. Good for the Judge...Now Rahm needs to just slink away like the slimeball he is and always was.
warrprayer
(4,734 posts)3. hey rahm
go fuck yourself