A class-action lawsuit has been filed over the mass arrest of some 700 people taking part in a Saturday march over the Brooklyn Bridge during the Occupy Wall Street protests. Many protesters say they were arrested after believing they had the approval of the police to march on the roadway instead of the pedestrian crossing. The class action lawsuit accuses the New York City Police Department of "a premeditated, planned, scripted, and calculated effort to sweep the streets of protesters and disrupt a growing protest movement in New York." The Occupy Wall Street protest enters a new phase today with what is expected to be it’s largest rally to date. The city’s municipal unions and university students are set to join the demonstrators for a march in Lower Manhattan.
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