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DA withdraws charges against Occupy participant, Penn honoree who says police broke her finger.
Philadelphia's District Attorney withdrew charges yesterday against Khadijah White, the Occupier and Penn doctoral candidate who was arrested last March amid a spontaneous protest that erupted during a hearing on proposed Board of Health regulations for outdoor meals (the mayor had also announced the day before his proposed ban on serving meals in city parks).
DA withdraws charges against Occupy participant, Penn honoree who says police broke her finger.
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Philadelphia's District Attorney withdrew charges yesterday against Khadijah White, the Occupier and Penn doctoral candidate who was arrested last March amid a spontaneous protest that erupted during a hearing on proposed Board of Health regulations for outdoor meals (the mayor had also announced the day before his proposed ban on serving meals in city parks).
City officials, you might recall, had abruptly capped the number of individuals allowed to enter the meeting and, as folks left, refused to let new ones in. White, who says she was trying to reason with police officials, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and harassment. In the process, her finger was broken – intentionally, she says – by a police officer.
While in jail, she missed a ceremony at Penn at which she was honored with the 2012 Women of Color at Penn Award.
White’s lawyer (and frequent Occupy defender) Larry Krasner, says that police were ready to testify that White had pushed a police officer, but that video of the incident showed nothing of the sort (Philadlephia Police declined to comment on the case). “Maybe they were all suffering from a mass-hallucination, but what they were willing to say ... is not confirmed by the video,” Krasner says. “Frankly, it sounds like a big fat lie to me.”
Krasner never got to make that case in court: the DA withdrew all charges, news that came right on top of a federal judge’s upholding last week an injunction against Mayor Nutter’s proposed ban on the serving of meals in city parks, the very policy that had brought White out to protest in the first place.
“I’m just really happy,” said a relieved-sounding White on Monday evening. “It’s great to have these victories back to back,”
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