In New York a group of 52 people arrested at a protest against the Carlyle Group held last year have sued the city’s police department. The protesters claimed the police made preemptively mass arrested protesters who were lawfully standing on a sidewalk across the street from the Carlyle Group’s offices. Nancy Chang an attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights said “We believe these arrests and detentions were part of a nationwide pattern … a concerted effort to keep people off the streets and deter people who would protest from coming out.”