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Mayor De Blasio: Let Occupy Protesters Have Their Day in Court!

Dear Mayor De Blasio:

I'm writing you to ask that New York City drop any further appeal of the recent U.S. Court of Appeal ruling in favor of the approximately seven hundred peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestors who were trapped, detained and mass arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge in October 2011. The most recent ruling followed an appeal from the Bloomberg Administration that sought to overturn an earlier to the Federal District Court decision in 2012 that had also ruled in favor of those who had been arrested on Brooklyn Bridge. 

Hundreds of people  teachers, health care workers, students, parents of small children and many others  were suddenly and without warning arrested on October 1, 2011. These were the very first days of the Occupy Movement and the police were employing super-aggressive, unconstitutional tactics against this new, promising social justice movement.

Although you were not yet mayor you earned the support of many people at that time you when admonished the City government for not giving adequate consideration of the protesters' First Amendment rights. 

Instead of wasting time and money in an effort to overturn the rulings by both the U.S. Federal District Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals -- which allowed the protesters' lawsuit to proceed -- we urge you to allow those arrested to have their day in court.

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