If there is one thing I LOVE about Danbury, it's gotta be the city's great festivals. Every year, I try to attend as many ethnic festivals as possible and I had an amazing time at each one of them this year. Unfortunately, because of the 2006 campaign season, I was unable to post any of my file footage from the festivals (sorry). Now that the elections are over, I have time to bring everyone up to speed and give people who are rading this site from outside Hat City a peek into Danbury's 2006 festival season.
Kicking things off is footage from the 2006 Santo Cristo Festival which was held back in May. For those who don't know about this famous Portuguese festival, you can find a bit of information on the subject by clicking here.
Pictures from this and other festivals will be available in a special section of this site coming soon.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
