Livestream Footage Saves OWS Activist from Police Set-up
In the police version of events, Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy protestor Michael Premo charged the police like a linebacker, taking out a lieutenant and resisting arrest so forcefully that he fractured an officer’s bone. That’s the story prosecutors told in Premo’s trial, and it’s the general story his arresting officer testified to under oath as well. But Premo, facing felony charges of assaulting an officer, maintained his innocence. [...]