Police had probable cause to arrest two Occupy Wall Street protesters at a Manhattan bank in October 2011, but triable issues exist over the demonstrators’ claims that the officers used excessive force, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Southern District Judge Denise Cote (See Profile) dismissed the protesters’ false arrest claims but concluded there are enough questions about whether protesters Heather Carpenter and Julio Jose Jimenez-Artunduagu were subject to unnecessary force for that allegation to go forward against the individual police officers named in their lawsuit.
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