The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will reconsider an August decision refusing to dismiss a class action brought by Occupy Wall Street protestors who claim they were goaded by police into violating the law on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2011.
The court issued an order Wednesday granting the Law Department’s request for rehearing en banc on a 2-1 decision allowing a civil rights suit to go forward by 700 protesters who said police escorting them from Zuccotti Park to the bridge on Oct. 1, 2011, led them off a pedestrian walkway and onto the roadway, where they were arrested for blocking traffic.
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