New York City Agrees to Pay Occupy Wall Street $230,000 for Destruction of Library

[limpyhobbler]

April 9, 2013

Occupy Wall Street won a major legal battle earlier today when it agreed to a settlement from the city of New York that will pay the activist group over $230,000 in damages and legal fees. The settlement includes $47,000 in damages for Occupy Wall Street's 5,500 book library, most of which was destroyed or damaged during a November 15, 2011 raid on Zuccotti Park. The city also agreed to pay $186,350 in legal costs to Occupy Wall Street's lawyers.

"Our clients are pleased," Normal Siegel, one of Occupy Wall Street's attorneys, told the Village Voice. "We had asked for damages of $47,000 for the books and the computers, and we got $47,000. More important — we would not have settled without this — is the language in the settlement. This was not just about money, it was about constitutional rights and the destruction of books."
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The city also settled with two other groups who sued for damages related to the same raid. Global Revolutions TV, a media group which broadcast from the park, received $75,0000 for damaged equipment and $49,850 in lawyer's fees. Times Up New York received $7,500 for property destroyed in the raid.

http://gawker.com/5994220/new-york-city-agrees-to-pay-occupy-wall-street-230000-for-destruction-of-library

$47,000 + $186,350 + 75,0000 + $49,850 + $7,500 is alot of money. Subtract the legal fees, and it's still a lot. Hope it gets put to good use.

[NYC_SKP]

1. K/R (nt)

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. I'm glad OWS gets the cash, but....

...I'm paying it, along w. the other taxpayers of NYC. Not the creeps who wrought the destruction. Where's the accountability?

[Pharaoh]

3. their accountability

is that NYC should not have done it in the first place.

Right, you shouldn't have to pay. Hold your reps responsible............

[rhett o rick]

4. You cant be series. nm

[Lady Freedom Returns]

5. Remeber that you are the boss!

Those that did the destruction are your employees. So are those that orders it.

Your employees just cost you a lot of money. What des a boss do when the recklessness of an employee cost the company money?


My Suggestions:

1) start calling city hall, let them know you are pissed. Tell them you want them to control what the police do to other peoples property.

2) have friends and family do the same.

3) if they are unwilling to change their conduct, fire them (Vote them out).

This is not just for the NYC case, but can and should be used everywhere. It is not just Federal and State Governments that need to remember who is boss, but County and City as well.

We can not expect the powers that be to take accountability, or to make their branches to, it is up to us to make them.

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. That will be news to Bloomberg. Check out the date of this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=169x4238

Point: it ain't so simple here.