occupy wall street
Occupy protesters who flipped off NYPD cops get $52K from city
The city has agreed to pay two Occupy Wall Street protesters $52,000 after they were arrested for flipping the bird to officers on the subway, unprovoked. Channing Creager, 26, of...
City spent $1 million trying to fire this teacher -- and failed
The city has lost a four-year, $1 million battle to fire a teacher arrested in the Occupy Wall Street protests. David Suker, a US Army veteran who taught at-risk youths...
How Obama is bankrolling a nonstop protest against invented outrage
Barack Obama’s presidency has been pockmarked by rioting, looting and protests. That’s no coincidence. It’s what the former community organizer sought from Day One. And it’s just going to get...
OWS anniversary marked by rally for the homeless
A small group of activists gathered at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan on the fourth anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement to protest the treatment of the homeless in...
America will pay the price for Obama's Iran deal 'victory'
The word “disconnect” is the appropriate way to describe the chasm between America’s government and its citizens. We all have our favorite examples, but none can match the events of...
Occupy mom who ditched family loses police brutality suit
The Florida mom who ditched her family to join the raggedy Occupy Wall Street crowd turned out to be an even bigger loser on Thursday when a jury rejected her...
Occupy woman who left family clams up about affair in Zuccotti Park
The mom who ditched her family to join Occupy Wall Street got quiet at her civil trial against the city Wednesday when asked about an illicit relationship with another activist...
Occupy protester who left family sues city over 'police brutality'
The mom who left her family in Florida to become part of the raggedy Occupy Wall Street crowd has sued the city over her 2011 arrest — testifying Tuesday that...
NYPD settlements cost city record $216.9M
The city paid a record $216.9 million in one year to settle claims against the Police Department — the most ever for a single city agency, Comptroller Scott Stringer said...
NYC settles Occupy Wall Street group’s lawsuit for $25K
City taxpayers will be shelling out to settle another suit with Occupy Wall Street protesters — this time, $25,000 for a group that set up Web access for demonstrators at...
Occupy Wall Street protesters settle police-brutality lawsuits
Six Occupy Wall Street protesters will divide a cool $332,500 settlement with the city to end their police-brutality lawsuit against the NYPD. “We’re happy with the settlements,” said lawyer Mark...
'Angry Pacifist' says he was attacked by church guards
A Staten Islander who calls himself the Angry Pacifist claims a Trinity Church rep beat him. Demonstrators have been sleeping on the sidewalk outside the downtown Manhattan church for two...
Occupy Wall Street protester brags after $45K settlement
An Occupy Wall Street protester scored a $45,000 settlement from the city — and followed up by bragging that the money means the city is “sorry” for the way it treated...
Councilman donating settlement money to civil-liberties group
The Center for Constitutional Rights is getting money from the city — to sue the city. City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez (D-Manhattan) announced Monday that he’s donating the $30,000 he won...
Councilman snags $30K settlement in Occupy Wall Street lawsuit
Manhattan Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez snagged a $30,000 settlement Thursday in a lawsuit he and three other council members brought against the city in 2012 over the NYPD’s handling of Occupy...
Cops used barricades as weapons during Occupy protest: suit
An Occupy Wall Street protester is suing the city — and 91 individual cops — claiming they wielded metal barricades like weapons to injure demonstrators. Self-styled “citizen journalist” Robert Pluma,...
'Bloody' Times Square
You know that demonstrator who spattered NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton with fake blood Monday night? Well, he’s not some guy outraged by the Missouri grand jury’s decision in the shooting...
Occupy Wall Street protester on trial for pretending to be a lawyer
The Occupy Wall Street protester who bawled over the dress her non-fashion-savvy lawyer had her wear in court found herself before another judge on Tuesday after allegedly pretending to be...
OWS transgender protester sues cops over 'unconstitutional' arrest
A Massachusetts man claims he was mistreated and humiliated by cops after being arrested during a 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest on the Brooklyn Bridge – all because he’s transgender....
OWS leaders in fight over money, Twitter, Israel-Palestine
He occupied Occupy Wall Street’s Twitter account and now an officer of the income equality-preaching group wants a former leader to pay half-a-million dollars for muting the social media voice...