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NYPD Faces Possible Suits Over WEF Arrests

by Andrea Bernstein

NEW YORK, NY March 27, 2002 — Lawyers for protesters arrested at the World Economic Forum say the New York police department may have violated its own policies for handling arrests by holding demonstrators in jail overnight which could potentially cost the city millions of dollars in lawsuits. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports ....

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