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xmas74

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Sat Dec 17, 2011, 07:40 PM Dec 2011

Occupy KC hopes police will waive cost of protest [View all]

Protesters from the Occupy Kansas City movement want to march on downtown streets Dec. 30.

But they don’t have the $4,100 fee to pay police officers to shut down traffic near Ninth and Main streets to ensure their safety. So an attorney representing the group asked the Board of Police Commissioners on Friday for an indigency waiver, prompting this discussion:

Whose budget is tighter: The movement’s or the city’s?



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/12/16/3323816/occupy-kc-hopes-police-will-waive.html#ixzz1gqHvJYbe

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