Did police go too far in undercover Occupy mission? [View all]
Source: KTRK
HOUSTON (KTRK) — When Occupy protesters chained themselves together with PVC pipes outside the Port of Houston in December, they might have expected to get arrested and perhaps even charged with misdemeanors for disturbing the peace, but they did not imagine getting felony charges.
That protest and those arrests led to an investigation involving Austin police officers who infiltrated the Occupy movement. They are accused of being part of the action that led to the charges.
The key question here: did Austin police officers go too far when they went undercover during the local protest?
Defense attorney Greg Gladden says they did, and the resulting charges are wrong.
Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=8795112
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