Chicago settles with war protesters for $6M

[MerryBlooms]

February 9, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Chicago taxpayers will be shelling out more than $6 million to demonstrators and others arrested during an anti-war protest back in 2003.

City lawyers have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit involving those arrests.

The $6.2 million settlement could have implications on how police handle protesters during the upcoming G8 and NATO summits in Chicago.

When a federal judge recent ridiculed what he saw as the "idiocy" of the city's policies on protests, it paved the wave for this settlement and changes to how police handle demonstrators.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8537505&hpt=us_bn6

[lonestarnot]

1. Good.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Not to worry. TPTB will recoup the $ w. "austerity measures". Like firing teachers....

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... or the like.

In other words.... as the "idiot" policymakers are legally immune from the consequences of their court-described "idiocy",
TPTB will continue to reign supreme as TPTB.

Good for the abused protestors, though.

Not so good for the people of that fair city. But, we tend to get the kind of government we deserve, to paraphrase..... JS Mill(?).