Los Angeles Occupy Movement Protestors Earn Settlement

Protestors in Los Angeles have won an agreement from Los Angeles City Hall to the tune of $2.5 million over harsh treatment they say infringed on their First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights.  Descriptions of the treatment they received as outlined in an article on Brad Blog are indeed quite shocking.  Evidently, this kind of treatment was common as authorities began to clear out the various Occupy encampments around the country in late 2011.

While City Hall has done the right thing in agreeing to the settlement it is shocking these events happened in the first place.  However, they are a sign of the fight going on now in America over how this nation is to be run.  Is it to be run by and for the American people or by and for the wealthy? This is a fight we have seen before in American history, such as in the Haymarket Affair and the Flint Sit-Down Strike among many other incidents.  Now, however, the people seem to be claiming some ground, however incrementally.

I'll keep monitoring this issue as long as time and strength permit.


Occupy Movement Protestors Win Settlement