Two members of Occupy D.C. have filed a lawsuit against the D.C. police department over their arrest outside Merrill Lynch last month.
The protesters, Kelly Canavan and Samuel Dukore, pitched a tent outside the wealth management firm’s District headquarters Feb. 13 to advocate for banking reform. They were arrested, police said, for violating a District law that prohibits constructing a temporary abode on a sidewalk.
In their lawsuit, Canavan and Dukore contend that they shouldn’t have been arrested because their tent didn’t contain sleeping materials and was clearly designated as a symbolic representation of their protest.
