Anti-Bush Protesters Plan Lawsuit Over Arrests

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Published on Thursday, December 9, 2004 by the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal (Pennsylvania)
Anti-Bush Protesters Plan Lawsuit Over Arrests
by Justin Quinn

Lawyers representing "The Smoketown Six" are scheduled to announce today the filing of a federal civil rights lawsuit against law enforcement agents who arrested the protesters during a visit by President Bush to East Lampeter Township earlier this year.

A press conference concerning the lawsuit is expected to be held this morning in Philadelphia.

The lawsuit alleges that the demonstrators' right to free speech was violated after police arrested them for stripping down to thong underwear and piling on top of each other in an attempt to re-enact a photograph from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq.


The protesters were taken into custody minutes before the president's tour bus passed through Smoketown in July. They later were charged with disorderly conduct. .......