From the New York Daily News: This protester will be occupied with paying back the City of Portland.
Occupy Portland protester Elizabeth Evon Nichols, who gained widespread attention after a photo of her being pepper-sprayed by police went viral, has reportedly been ordered to cough up $7,116.
Nichols, now 23, sued the city last August for excessive force for the fall 2011 incident, saying she suffered unbearable pain in her eyes and throat, nightmares, depression and intensifying eczema, reported The Oregonian.
She was seeking $30,000 damages.
But, as the Portland paper points out, the federal jury sided with the city after a four-day trail. Portland was then legally entitled to recover the $7,116 it incurred defending itself from Nichols.
Deputy city attorney David Landrum said that he did not want to drag money out of the Portland State University student, who works as a janitor. So he offered to drop the city's attempt for payback if Nichols would waive an appeal.
She declined. So Portland pursued the money.
The Oregonian said the $7,116 will pay for the clerk, witnesses, transcripts, summons and subpoena, as well as copying costs, docket fees and other costs....
Back on Nov. 17, 2011, Nichols linked arms with other Occupy protesters and refused to back down when police ordered them to leave a sidewalk outside a bank. An officer said she pushed Nichols in the throat with her baton. Then Nichols raised her arms in the air, so the officer hit her in the torso with the baton.
At this point, just as Nichols opened her mouth to scream, another officer blasted her in the face with pepper-spray.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/occupy-portland-protester-pepper-sprayed-ordered-pay-city-7-116-article-1.1592070
Clearly this shows this thug protestor isn't very bright and that could be said for most other Occupy movement people.
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