PROTESTERS: New DC Law Protects Us - Learn and USE IT!!!!!

[jackstraw45]

If you SEE ANY police misconduct, those officers are BREAKING THE LAW.

http://occr.dc.gov/occr/cwp/view,a,1199,q,632691,occrNav_GID,1470.asp

The "First Amendment Rights and Police Standards Act of 2004"* which took effect on April 13, 2005, authorizes the agency to monitor and evaluate the Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) handling of First Amendment assemblies.


Provisions of the new law curtail the use of police lines to entrap demonstrators who have not broken any law and restrict the use of wrist-to-ankle restraints. The legislation also prohibits the use of tear gas and pepper spray on peaceful demonstrators.

[LiberalVoice]

1. IS this only in DC?

Should be nationwide.

[ecoflame]

4. Yes - only D.C. (n/t)

n/t

[jackstraw45]

5. DC government is on our side...

No way the Gestapo GOP congress and administration would pass something like this.

[karlrschneider]

2. Kickety

:kick:

[ecoflame]

3. Read this ....

This is the opening when the link opens up....

"Under new authority recently granted to the Police Complaints Board (PCB) by the District of Columbia, the Office of Police Complaints (OPC), which is overseen by PCB, will monitor antiwar and anti-globalization protests that will be held on September 24, 2005."

Metropolitan Police Dept....only for Washington D.C., NOT nationwide.

If it is nationwide, this is NOT the correct document for national 'coverage.'