{"id":107,"date":"2015-09-25T21:46:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T20:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/?p=107"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:50:45","slug":"ows-protester-who-had-her-breast-grabbed-by-nypd-sergeant-gets-95k-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/2015\/09\/25\/ows-protester-who-had-her-breast-grabbed-by-nypd-sergeant-gets-95k-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"OWS Protester Who Had Her Breast Grabbed By NYPD Sergeant Gets $95K Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2015\/09\/08\/ows_protester_settlement.php\">gothamist<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An Occupy Wall Street protester who had her breast \ngrabbed by an NYPD sergeant has won a $95,000 settlement from the city \nafter arguing that \u201cthe police department demonstrated a pattern of \nsexual misconduct against female OWS activists.\u201d<\/p><p>Cressa Perloff was arrested on March 17th, 2012, while she stood on \nthe sidewalk during a demonstration to commemorate the six-month \nanniversary of OWS.<\/p><p>In a statement, Perloff\u2019s attorney, Rebecca Heinegg, says that video \nfrom that date shows that NYPD Sergeant Joseph Catapano \u201cgrabbed her \nbreast purposefully, dragged her into the street by her breast and hair,\n and arrested her.\u201d<\/p><p>Catapano claimed that Perloff, who had never been arrested before, \nwas trying to steal his badge, though he later admitted that this was \nuntrue. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2015\/09\/08\/ows_protester_settlement.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From gothamist: An Occupy Wall Street protester who had her breast grabbed by an NYPD sergeant has won a $95,000&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}