(University Law Clinics Report Details) 14 Specific Allegations of NYPD Brutality During OWS

Source: The Atlantic

14 Specific Allegations of NYPD Brutality During Occupy Wall Street

JUL 25 2012, 10:00 AM ET 19

A collaborative investigation launched by law clinics at four top universities has assembled damning evidence of widespread misconduct.

An investigation undertaken by law clinics at NYU, Fordham, Harvard, and Stanford has concluded, after eight months of study, that the NYPD abused Occupy Wall Street protesters and violated their rights on numerous occasions during the 2011 protests that radiated out from Zuccotti Park. Their report, Suppressing Protest: Human Rights Violations in the U.S. Response to Occupy Wall Street, was released today. It focuses on transgressions against international law.

What I found most arresting were its specific descriptions of alleged police misconduct. Scores of examples were offered. I've highlighted a selection of the ones that struck me as most credible, whether due to video footage of the incident or eyewitness testimony from a credentialed journalist, a designated legal observer, or a member of the legal team that put together the report (the report, linked above features links).

All of the following vignettes are quoted verbatim from its pages:

Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/14-specific-allegations-of-nypd-brutality-during-occupy-wall-street/260295/