Dan Lynch, a NYC-based defense attorney and an avid concert taper, has been offering pro bono services to arrested protesters
that police could detain people for more than 24 hours, despite the state’s 24-hour arrest-to-arraignment rule.)
One, Lynch says, involves a “young man who was physically injured and then miraculously [got] charged with assaulting a police officer whom he didn’t assault.” The man was released after being arraigned, Lynch says, adding he’s now trying to track down as much video footage of the incident as possible to help exonerate him. The goal is to beat the criminal case first , and then, Lynch adds, see “if he wants to sue the police for false arrest or false imprisonment and brutality.
In his view, Lynch says these kinds of civil rights cases have actually gone down over the past two decades. But he notes that the ubiquity of camera phones has amplified incidents of police brutality, adding, “I think there’s less of it, but what does take place is worse.” And, he’s quick to point out that broken noses and swollen faces are often replaced with more “day-to-day indignities,” like stop-and-frisk policies.
Lynch started taping shows in the Nineties, and ticks off some early favorites — Wilco at Irving Plaza, Jonathan Richman at Mercury Lounge, Built to Spill at Maxwell’s, the beloved, but now-closed Hoboken club. He put his hobby on hold toward the end of the decade after the birth of his children but picked it up again around 2004. His timing was perfect. The Brooklyn indie scene was booming, and with Williamsburg still several years away from becoming SoHo 2.
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