During the dinner break, the judge, who also worked as a criminal justice aide in both the Dinkins and Giuliani administrations, defended the city's aggressive arrest policy.
Less than two weeks after the 25-year-old died from a spinal injury following an aggressive arrest and transport by police, Mosby charged involved officers with depraved heart murder, assault, false imprisonment, and misconduct in office.
The aggressive mass arrests, park and sidewalk closings, and hostility to the press evidenced this weekend are tactics documented repeatedly since Occupy began.
William Dobbs, a spokesman for United for Peace and Justice, said the police were less aggressive about arresting lingerers, pointing out that they actually escorted a small group that continued to march downtown, without a permit, after the event.
In Baghdad, where the original wave of postwar looting has evolved into chronic street crime and violence against residents, American military leaders have greatly increased the number of troops on street patrols and have become much more aggressive about arresting suspects in looting.
In the federal civil rights lawsuit, which seeks class action status, McKesson and fellow protesters Kira Marrero and Gloria La Riva complained that police were unnecessarily aggressive in arresting them on July 9.
You cannot present yourself as a proponent of a public health approach while simultaneously advocating the aggressive pursuit, arrest, and imprisonment of people who might need help with a health problem.
Federal law enforcement officials said today that their aggressive campaign of arrests in recent weeks had broken up several active Al Qaeda cells in the United States.
B7 Tracking a Terror Network THE INVESTIGATION -- Federal officials said that their aggressive campaign of arrests in recent weeks had broken up several active Al Qaeda cells in the United States.
