Study: NYPD Abused Basic Rights at Occupy Protests
<div class='node-body'><p>The NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during the Occupy Wall Street protests and showed a 'shocking level of impunity', when dealing with protesters, according to <a href="http://www.chrgj.org/projects/suppressingprotest.pdf" target="_blank">a new study (pdf)</a>, published on Wednesday.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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