Suit Filed Over Arrests During GOP Convention
Saying New York had created its “own little Guantanamo on the Hudson” during the Republican National Convention, a lawyer filed a lawsuit on behalf of nearly 2,000 people arrested at demonstrations.
The federal lawsuit filed by Jonathan C. Moore claims that protesters and bystanders were rounded up in mass arrests without cause; were kept without access to their lawyers or families at an old bus depot used as a temporary detention center; and were exposed for days to cruel and inhuman conditions.
Deputy Police Commissioner Paul J. Browne said the allegations were false.
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