NY Transit went to court to protest NYPD using MTA buses to transport arrested protesters!

[dixiegrrrrl]

Several stories on this, happened last 24 hours.

Today the Transport Workers Union, which last week voted unanimously in support of Occupy Wall Street, went to court to fight against the city's use of city bus drivers to transport arrested protesters. Following the Brooklyn Bridge arrests on Saturday, the Union said the NYPD had commandeered numerous MTA buses to transport many of the 700 demonstrators arrested, and that ordering bus drivers to drive arrested protesters was, per Union President John Samuelsen, "a blatant act of political retaliation." The TWU was in court today with their attorney Arthur Schwartz to request a temporary restraining order and a permanent injunction forbidding the involuntary use, by the NYPD, of New York City Bus Operators to transport prisoners. The request was denied by a federal district judge sitting on the U.S. Southern District Court.

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/transport_worke_1.php

Damn...see what happens when Rove packed the Federal courts? Hardly anyone noticed at the time what he was doing.

[Dawson Leery]

1. There are legal observers to watch over the sad excuse of existence

known as the NYPD.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2062729

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. No one seriously expected to win this one

The judge was actually fairly soft in his opinion...

[former9thward]

3. Rove packed the court???

This judge is a President Obama appointee just confirmed this year.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Thank you for that correction.