Portland tries shaking down Occupy protester

This is exactly the sort of fascism that justifies Occupy expanding its activities even more.

In 2011, police in Portland, Oregon, sprayed a young woman with pepper spray for daring to participate in Occupy Portland. She later sued the city, but - unlike a majority of other Occupy court cases, which Occupy usually wins - she lost.

Now the city is trying to bill her over $7,000 for the city's legal fees. She earns her livelihood as a janitor and doesn't have that kind of money. Plus, the city is trying to charge her interest if she doesn't pay.

Do you honestly think I'd pay it? Why should a victim of police brutality pay the city's legal fees?

America was made great by revolutionaries - not by people who silently comply, or by corporations that make their zillions off everyone else's labor, or by political hacks who happily do Wall Street's dirty work. If Portland prosecutors hate the Constitution so much, they're free to move to Singapore.

(Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/01/pepper-sprayed_occupy_portland.html)