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PDRDs – Quick Fix for Police Misconduct or Counter-Surveillance Tool? As with Tasers, which were marketed as a high tech method of reducing Officer Involved Shooting deaths, PDRDs are a mixed bag and not an easy solution to what are actually much broader issues of …

Chronicle on $645,000 Sabeghi settlement The City of Oakland has tentatively authorized paying Army veteran Kayvan Sabeghi $645,000 to resolve his lawsuit over his beating by OPD “Tango Team” Officer Frank Uu during an Occupy Oakland demonstration on November 2, 2011. Rachel Lederman, Dennis Cunningham …

Occupy Oakland: Police Brutality Tab Reaches Nearly $2.9M

Read this in depth article by Kate Conger in the SF Weekly on the long term struggle to stop OPD abuses against protesters.

Million Dollar Settlements Bolster Bay Area Protesters’ Rights Article by Brad Thomson on the recent victories in the Spalding and Campbell lawsuits.

Read all about it here.

Rachel in the UK Guardian on Occupy settlement

SF Weekly on second $1m+ settlement

NLG press release on our $1.17M Settlement for Occupy protesters and journalists in Campbell, et al. v. City of Oakland.