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Legal Observers Sue the NYPD over Assault and Detention at Bronx Protest (The Intercept)
The Intercept, September 8, 2021
Legal Observers Sue the NYPD over Assault and Detention at Bronx Protest
Not everyone was persuaded. Two weeks after the Mott Haven kettle, the New York City Bar Association issued a statement describing itself as ‘gravely concerned.’ ‘The fact that legal observers have become targets for the police indicates that policing strategies in these communities have failed,’ the statement concluded. ‘The reports of police warnings that legal observers are in the area, the subsequent targeting and detention of those observers, and the forced disclosure of privileged material indicates a startling disregard by police forces that their conduct is governed in our society by the rule of law.’
