NEW YORK — In a surprising about-face, a federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators against the New York City Police Department over mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Many of the more than 700 marchers arrested said they were essentially tricked onto the iconic span by police in October 2011. Last August, three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit allowed the demonstrators’ false-arrest lawsuit to proceed. But they reversed themselves in another ruling Monday.
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The city has recently engaged in settlement talks over the notorious pepper-spraying of protester Kaylee Dedrick, but Ron Kuby, one of Dedrick’s attorneys, told HuffPost that no agreement has been reached.
