New York City Pays Out Over $300k In Settlements From Occupy Protests Pepper Spray Incident

Some other Occupy-related lawsuits also continue, including cases involving police use of pepper spray.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

Watch: NYPD officer Anthony Balogna pepper spraying already detained Occupy Wall Street protesters.   NEW YORK  — The city has agreed to pay a total of $332,500 to six Occupy Wall Street protesters who said police unjustly blasted them with pepper spray in an episode that helped propel the movement into the spotlight. The

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Justice Is Blind To Those Who Can’t Afford It

MintPress explores the two vastly different prosecutory worlds available to those with money, power and influence, and those without it, finding discrepancies between how the U.S. justice system handles corporate and street crimes.

Sean Nevins
By Sean Nevins

WASHINGTON --- Two days after a Staten Island grand jury acquitted NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, banking and financial services giant BNP Paribas S.A. (BNPP) was able to delay sentencing that would force it to pay $8.9 billion for pleading guilty to violating U.S. sanctions regulations. Nobody at the global banking

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Remorseful Jurors Plea To Judge: No Prison Time For OWS Activist

Jurors express shock and regret upon learning guilty verdict could land Cecily McMillan in prison for 7 years.

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare
Cecily McMillan

A majority of the jury that found Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan guilty of "felony assault" of the very police officer who she says sexually assaulted and brutalized her appears to be remorseful that the 25-year-old could spend up to seven years behind bars. Nine of the 12 people who served on the jury have penned a letter to Judge

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OWS Activist Found Guilty Of ‘Assaulting’ Cop Who Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Her

Cecily McMillan, who faces up to seven years in prison, was immediately handcuffed and ‘whisked away.’

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare

Cecily McMillan—the 25-year-old Occupy Wall Street organizer who was allegedly sexually assaulted and brutalized by a police officer at Zuccotti Park, is facing up to seven years in prison after—in what her supporters say is a cruel twist—she was convicted Monday afternoon of "felony assault" of the very police officer she says is her

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World’s Financial Elite Get Lofty On ‘Inequality,’ But Critics Unimpressed

‘We need much bigger changes … not just speaking out against inequality and not just speaking out against contradictory policies, but actually making those policy changes’

Jacob Chamberlain
By Jacob Chamberlain

In reference to last week's "Spring Meetings" between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, critics are calling on the two financial giants to put their money where their mouths are and initiate policies that fight growing global inequality, rather than create it. In the build-up to the annual meetings between finance ministers,

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Civil Liberties On Trial In Occupy Wall St. Case

The last trial of Occupy Wall Street protesters opened on Monday, testing the country’s commitment to protecting civil liberties.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Cecily McMillan

In New York City, a major test of the nation’s commitment to civil liberties is playing out as Cecily McMillan, 25, a New School student, faces felony charges in a trial that started on Monday. McMillan, the last of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators to face trial, is accused of assaulting a police officer -- a charge that carries the possibility

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