Occupy Seattle 84-year-old pepper sprayed

Riot · #1 11-16-2011, 08:02 PM

Oh, those lazy, drug-smoking hippies!

84-year-old Dorli Rainey pepper-sprayed while marching with Occupy Seattle. Also reported pepper-sprayed was a priest, and a pregnant 19-year-old woman (she was not confirmed).

Here's a letter from the priest who was pepper-sprayed trying to keep peace: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/1...ed?via=siderec

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/...ch-2271197.php

Riot · #2 11-16-2011, 08:19 PM

www.dailykos.com (a clearinghouse for lots of Occupy information, including from people on the ground, live blogs when things happen, etc)

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At Occupy Boston, we've taken a proactive approach to the possibility of forcible removal. Our lawyers filed an injunction.

The first hearing was this morning and the judge ruled in our favor, for now.

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A Boston judge has ordered the city not to remove protesters or their tents from a downtown encampment without court approval, except in an emergency such as fire, a medical issue or an outbreak of violence.

As the headline states, this is a temporary judgement. There will be a hearing of fuller arguments on December 1. The judge has also order that there be a mediation between the parties between now and then.

What prompted this? Well, the raids on other occupations in the cloak of darkness, of course.

Per the ACLU/NLG press release:

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Civil rights attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild and the American Civil Liberties Union went to court today

seeking to protect the rights of free speech, assembly, petition, and association for demonstrators at Occupy Boston in Dewey Square, in light of the heavy-handed police crackdowns in recent days on Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York, Portland, Ore., and Oakland, Calif.