No police department in the USA should be allowed - for the lightest of misdemeanor offenses
- to delay booking prisoners for 7 hours, while they hold them kneeling on concrete.
- Refuse people access to their lawyers.
- Refuse access to bail bondsmen.
- Refuse, when arrestees have bail in hand, refuse to bail them out.
- Be allowed to jail some for the same offense, that they write tickets for and let others go, on the same day, because they want to "make an example" of some of them, but not of others.
- Keep people jailed for the maxium amount of time allowed by law, when those accused could have been discharged 24 hours earlier.
- destroy personal property belonging to the arrestee
Every American should be outraged at this. We have laws to protect our freedoms. It has nothing at all to do with if one supports Occupy or not.
Someone was angry about what Occupy is "costing towns". How about the multiple lawsuits against your town's police department, the civil suits for the police breaking the law? Should you not be concerned about that? You're paying for it.
This is America. Peaceful protest is legal. Whether you are Occupy, the Tea Party, or the Klu Klux Klan.
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