OWS protester, from LI (Long Island), sues over arrest

[LeighAnn]

Source: NY Newsday

A Long Island woman Monday became the first Occupy Wall Street protester to file a federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the NYPD of arresting her without cause at a Citibank branch after she closed her account in protest.

Heather Carpenter of Port Jefferson, who works as a caregiver at a group home, said police arrested others protesting in the lobby of the bank's Greenwich Village branch on Oct. 15, but allowed her to leave because she was a customer who had closed her $520 account.

Then, when she began filming the protest on her iPod outside the bank, she was roughly dragged back inside and handcuffed, she alleged. Her fiance, Julio Jimenez-Artunduanga of Paterson, N.J., who had left the lobby earlier, was also arrested when he began objecting to her treatment, the suit said.

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The Manhattan district attorney's office on Monday dismissed charges against Jimenez-Artunduanga. A prosecutor said in court that the district attorney and Citibank had decided not to proceed against him or Carpenter, whose next court date is in December, because the two were together and she was a customer who had transacted business.



Read more: http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/ows-protester-from-li-sues-over-arrest-1.3337955

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And so it begins...

[msongs]

1. every person attacked by police criminals needs to sue their attacker nt

[LeighAnn]

2. This will be the biggest expense

The amount of money paid in overtime to these stormtrooper thugs will pale when compared to the cost of settling the lawsuits of citizens and reporters who were assaulted and wrongfully arrested in the protests. This is the first of many, many

[RKP5637]

3. Excellent!!! n/t

[ck4829]

4. Police aren't giving a straight story, this will be interesting

[leftyohiolib]

5. that's because they cant keep their lies straight

[Hissyspit]

6. Two:

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7AK1Y920111121?irpc=932