Like I said earlier, I'm dedicating today to outlining how Mayor Boughton and the Republicans on the common council are backpedaling on their defense of the BRT SEVEN YEAR tax giveaway.
Boughton's flip-flop has outraged those who have attempted to address the BRT tax giveaway or YEARS only to be dismissed by the mayor or Republicans on the Common Council.
From June 2007, here's then Common Council members Fred Visconti and Lynn Taborsak talking about Mayor Boughton's BRT SEVEN YEAR tax giveaway on Crosby street.
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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.