Occupy protests: Month 9
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, Ill.
New York, N.Y.
Boston, Mass.
Frankfurt, Germany
Tel Aviv, Israel
Montreal, Canada
Washington, D.C.
New York, N.Y.
In late May a New York City court postponed hearings for Occupiers arrested in the October march; their trials were delayed until late summer.
On June 7 a judge gave the green light to a lawsuit against police officers in the arrests of 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge, but he dismissed the city and its top officials from liability.
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said in a written ruling that the marchers had adequately backed up their claims that they were not properly warned by officers that they would be arrested on the bridge Oct. 1.
Meanwhile, on June 18 eight protesters were convicted of misdemeanor trespassing for entering a lot owned by Trinity Church a month after the Zucotti Park encampment was dismantled, CBS Station WCBS reports. The defendants had been charged after a Dec. 17 incident when protesters scaled a chain-link fence or crawled under it to get to a lot to use it as a new camp site.
A judge in state Supreme Court in Manhattan found the protesters guilty after a week-long bench trial. One of the defendants was also convicted of two other misdemeanors: Attempted criminal mischief and attempted criminal possession of burglar
Maui, Hawaii
Portland, Ore.
Whitten, an Occupy Portland activist who finished 5th of 23 candidates in last month's mayoral election, has gone on a "hunger strike for housing justice." Today marks his 20th day without food. He drinks water and juice, as he conducts a 24-hour-a-day protest outside City Hall. "I feel like a million bon-bons," he said.