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…J20, brought against 200+ people, immediately,” said NLG DC member Maggie Ellinger-Locke. Breaking with the last decade of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) practice, police “kettled” (i.e. indiscriminately surrounded and arrested)…
…that same day. Police held arrestees at 12th and L St. NW for hours, denying basic needs such as treatment for injuries, water, and access to bathrooms. Police then pepper…
…Baptist Church, is a sculpture dedicated to those heroic youth, depicting a police officer holding a cowering young African-American with one hand and a growling German shepherd with bared teeth…
…policing at previous NSSEs has in the past led to mass arrests, surveillance of protesters, unconstitutional restrictions of permits and free speech, and intimidating shows of force by police. “Tens…
…legal support designed to enable people to express their political views as fully as possible without unconstitutional disruption or interference by the police and with the fewest possible consequences from…
…coordinate with event organizers to establish the police as “facilitators rather than confronters.” This approach is designed to encourage event organizers to cooperate with police by monitoring their own protests….
…assistance to protestors at the RNC and DNC and to social justice movements across the nation, including uprisings against racism and police brutality. The NLG provides important resources for protesters,…
…defendants. To justify this unprecedented move, Erickson charged: “Each protester attack on our police officers, each riot, and each incidence of private property destruction has been done to create fake…
…a racial makeup about standard for the state, in the order of >96% white, and a police force numbering about thirty. I remember having a few interactions with the police…
