- Chicago taxpayers will be shelling out more than $6 million to demonstrators and others arrested during an anti-war protest back in 2003.
City lawyers have agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit involving those arrests.
The $6.2 million settlement could have implications on how police handle protesters during the upcoming G8 and NATO summits in Chicago.
When a federal judge recent ridiculed what he saw as the "idiocy" of the city's policies on protests, it paved the wave for this settlement and changes to how police handle demonstrators.
We're sure that G-Mac will review who was in charge, who was giving illegal orders and demoting them immediately - or at least making sure they aren't in any position to run the G8 arrangements. Right? Right?? [::cricket chirping::]
Oh crap.
Oh crap.