A veteran D.C. police detective said he heard then-D.C. police chief Charles Ramsey order the mass arrests of 400 protesters at Pershing Park in 2002, contradicting the former chief’s testimony that someone else had initiated the roundup, according to an affidavit filed Wednesday in a civil suit in federal court.
In a two-page affidavit signed Monday, 22-year veteran Detective Paul E. Hustler said he was five feet from Ramsey when he heard him say, “we’re going to lock them up and teach them a lesson.”
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