New York City has agreed to pay members of the so-called Occupy movement more than half a million dollars for false arrest over demonstrations back in 2011 and '12.
The payout is the largest so far in a series of payments for police misdeeds during the protests in Manhattan's financial district against social and economic inequality.
North America correspondent John Stempin is in Washington.
He explains to Ron Sutton what the payouts are specifically about.
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