{"id":10168,"date":"2014-01-08T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T10:31:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T10:31:30","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10168","title":{"rendered":"NYT: Mass Arrests During \u201904 Convention Leave Big Bill and Lingering Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/08\/nyregion\/mass-arrests-during-04-convention-leave-big-bill-and-lingering-mystery.html?ref=us\">Mass Arrests During \u201904 Convention Leave Big Bill and Lingering Mystery<\/a> by Jim Dwyer:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The final costs of settling civil rights lawsuits brought by hundreds of people who were swept up in mass arrests during the 2004 Republican National Convention \u2014 many of whom were breaking no laws whatsoever \u2014 are likely to be well over $35 million.<\/p>\n<p>That would make the convention lawsuits among the costliest ever defended by New York City.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>For all that has been spent, some cases still have not been resolved \u2014 and some mystery remains about the exact role of undercover police officers in the surveillance of protesters and activists. The former chief of intelligence for the Police Department, David Cohen, has said the infiltration was necessary because of what he called a \u201ccommingled\u201d threat during the convention from civil disobedience and terrorism. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10168\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}