Occupiers suing D.C. police over arrests

Published March 19, 2012 4:00am ET



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 — just over a week after the National Park Service had cleared most Occupy tents from McPherson Square — to advocate for banking reform.

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