Wall Street Protesters Complain of Police Surveillance
On Nov. 17, Kira Moyer-Sims was near the Manhattan Bridge, buying coffee while three friends waited nearby in a car. More than a dozen blocks away, protesters gathered for an Occupy Wall Street “day of action,” which organizers had described as an attempt to block the streets around the New York Stock Exchange.
Then, Ms. Moyer-Sims said, about 30 police officers surrounded her and the people in the car.
All four were arrested, said Vik Pawar, a lawyer for Ms. Moyer-Sims and two of the others, and taken to a police facility in the East Village. He said officers strip-searched them and ignored their requests for a lawyer. The fourth person could not be reached for comment.
Ms. Moyer-Sims, 20, said members of the Police Department’s intelligence division asked about her personal history, her relationship with other protesters, the nature of Occupy Wall Street and plans for upcoming protests.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/nyregion/occupy-wall-street-protesters-complain-of-police-monitoring.html
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I think this is getting more common. I don't hear about protesters assaulted by police winning any damages. The government will not want, and cannot afford, to pay these people off. So they won't.
They will ignore them, and if they won't go away, they will kill them. Killing people is what we are good at, and we have had a good deal of practice in my lifetime.
I know what you're thinking. The US government doesn't kill innocent people! 
--imm
