Latest Developments in the Global Occupy Protests - AP/ABCNews

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Latest Developments in the Global Occupy Protests
By The Associated Press/ABCNews
October 29, 2011 (AP)

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Some of the latest developments in the Occupy protests taking place in cities across the world:

UNITED STATES

TENNESSEE

Occupy Nashville protesters said Saturday that they plan to continue challenging a new curfew used to disband their encampment, despite two nights of arrests.

Tennessee state troopers arrested 26 people on Friday night, less than twenty-four hours after a pre-dawn raid where 29 were arrested. In both cases, the night magistrate refused to jail the protesters.

The arrests came after Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's administration on Thursday announced it had created a 10 p.m. curfew and posted notices at the Legislative Plaza, near the Capitol.

About 150 Occupy Nashville protesters gathered for a meeting Saturday, and several said they would again challenge the curfew.

All 26 people arrested Friday night were charged with trespassing; two were also charged with public intoxication; and one was also charged with criminal impersonation, Department of Safety spokeswoman Jennifer Donnals said.

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CALIFORNIA

PENNSYLVANIA

MAINE

NEW MEXICO

VERMONT

MICHIGAN

EUROPE

ENGLAND

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Link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-developments-global-occupy-protests-14841678?singlePage=true

:kick:

[DreamSmoker]

1. KFI Radio

Said a few minutes ago that this is now in over 900 cities across America...

[CJCRANE]

2. Curfews and crackdowns...

I've seen this before somewhere...

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. The nice thing about the Tennessee arrests:

Tennessee state troopers for the second straight night arrested Wall Street protesters for defying a new nighttime curfew imposed by Republican Gov. Bill Haslam in an effort to disband an encampment near the state Capitol.

And for a second time, a Nashville night judge dismissed arrest warrants of the arrested protesters.

The Tennessean newspaper reports that Magistrate Tom Nelson told troopers delivering the protesters to jail that he could "find no authority anywhere for anyone to authorize a curfew anywhere on Legislative Plaza."

from a Fox news report.

here is the cool thing:

Under a law called "color of statute" the police can be sued for using their authority illegally!
Proof of the illegality is the Judge told them the FIRST time they had no grounds for arresting the protesters.

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Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.