You see the protests and the arrests, but you often don’t see what comes next, the lawsuits. They do this all the time, figuring the cities will settle and that gives them free money from the oppressors to protest. It’s part of the MO.

Via NY Post:

The mom who left her family in Florida to become part of the raggedy Occupy Wall Street crowd has sued the city over her 2011 arrest — testifying Tuesday that she’s an innocent victim of police brutality.

“Somebody grabbed me by my hair and dragged me . . . behind the police officers,” said Stacey Hessler, 42, in Manhattan federal court.

But city attorneys said in their opening statements that Hessler had blocked pedestrian traffic during the November protest, then refused to move when cops politely asked her to make way. She also allegedly tried multiple times to escape when they finally moved to arrest her.

Hessler was “trying to bring the intersection to a standstill,” city attorney Andrew Lucas said.

The dreadlocked Hessler gained infamy for leaving her husband and four kids in Florida to camp out in Zuccotti Park. She spent some of her time with OWS cozying up to a Brooklyn waiter.