For one thing, many protesters, perhaps most, insist they did nothing wrong, and were wrongfully arrested.
Prestia has represented many clients who were wrongfully arrested, but Browder's story troubles him most deeply.
He could explain that he'd been wrongfully arrested, but the truth felt too complicated, too raw and personal.
Jefferies was the landlord wrongfully arrested in 2010 during the hunt for the killer of Joanna Yeates.
Mr Wallace also used his platform at the inquiry to apologise to Chris Jefferies, who was wrongfully arrested on suspicion of the murder of landscape architect Jo Yeates.
After Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun canoed through the city, rescuing neighbors and bringing them bottled water — until he was wrongfully arrested by the police.
This month, for example, a Brooklyn federal jury awarded $2.5 million to a man who said he had been wrongfully arrested and beaten by the police.
This year, the District government agreed to pay $425,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by seven people who the city acknowledged were wrongfully arrested.
A year ago, New York paid out $18m to settle lawsuits brought by plaintiffs who said they were wrongfully arrested during the Republican national convention of 2004.
Mr. Antoine said he was wrongfully arrested on Aug. 9, 1997, and beaten by Mr. Volpe, who has admitted to sodomizing Mr. Louima with a broken broomstick.
Another pair of black men were wrongfully arrested at a New Jersey L.A. Fitness gym after they were accused of not paying.
