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In what should have been a routine eviction, the marshals stormed into the apartment shouting and with guns drawn: an entrance more akin to a SWAT-team raid than an eviction.
For too long, access to money, not public support or policy positions, has often determined who can run for office and who is elected.
The amended complaint names 27 D.C. police officer defendants and adds two plaintiffs: a 10-year-old boy from North Carolina and his mother, who were peacefully demonstrating when he was knocked down and they were both exposed to pepper spray by D.C. officers.
A jury has found all six defendants in the criminal trials against Inauguration Day protestors in D.C. Superior Court not guilty on all counts.