Monday, 4 March 2013

US feds say man deserved arrest for wearing 'Occupy Everything' jacket

Supreme court

A Florida man deserved to be arrested inside the Supreme Court building last year for wearing a jacket painted with "Occupy Everything," and is lucky he was only apprehended on unlawful entry charges, the US Department of Justice says.


The President Barack Obama administration made that assertion in a legal filing in response to a lawsuit brought by Fitzgerald Scott, who is seeking $1 million (£664,805) in damages for his January 2012 arrest inside the Supreme Court building. He also wants his arrest record expunged.


By: David Kravets, Edited by: David Cornish


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/04/occupy-everything-jacket

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