"Activist Planning Suit Against Police Department for Brutality"

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"Activist Planning Suit Against Police Department for Brutality"

Washington Blade (12/23/88) Vol. 19, No. 52, P. 4
Chibbaro, Lou Jr.

Washington, D.C., AIDS activist Gary Green says he will file a lawsuit against city police charging them with brutality and gross misconduct for their treatment of him after a protest in the District Building. Green, who has AIDS, said he suffered overexposure to cold and convulsions when police forced him to spend 15 minutes standing outside and more than hour in an unheated police wagon without a coat. Temperatures were in the low 20s on Dec. 13, the day Green and other protesters from the group OUT! staged a civil disobedience against the City Council. Lt. Greg Smith of the Special Operations Unit said the division will investigate the actions of the officers who arrested Green. The activist says officers did not allow him to return for his coat or borrow one. Green, who spent a day at George Washington University Hospital, also says that after police left him sitting in the wagon outside First District Police Headquarters for 30-40 minutes, one of the officers said, "We don't care if you die."
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