OMG: You want to get arrested, lady? The retired JUDGE shoved up against a wall and threatened by NYPD at Occupy Wall Street clashes

Speaking out: Retired judge Karen Smith told Democracy Now! she saw a policeman beat a woman during the clearance of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:53 PM on 20th November 2011

A retired New York Supreme Court judge has claimed she was manhandled by a policeman after watching him beat a woman at the Zuccotti Park raids.

Karen Smith was working as a legal observer when she saw a distressed woman pushed to the ground and beaten by an officer, she said.

When she demanded he stopped, the unidentified cop pushed her against a wall and threatened her with arrest.
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