NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study | World news | guardian.co.uk

NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study | World news | guardian.co.uk:

The first systematic look at the New York police department's response to Occupy Wall Street protests paints a damning picture of an out-of-control and aggressive organization that routinely acted beyond its powers.  In a report that followed an eight-month study (pdf), researchers at the law schools of NYU and Fordham accuse the NYPD of deploying unnecessarily aggressive force, obstructing press freedoms and making arbitrary and baseless arrests.

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