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Four women, two of them well into middle age, were discussing funeral plans for a friend when an Atlanta police officer told them to move. Three did but one asked “why.” In answer to her question, Minnie Carey, then 61, was handcuffed, put into a paddy wagon and taken to jail, where she was held for nine hours.

A 60-year-old woman was arrested after exceeding her allotted three minutes of speaking time at a California city council meeting.

Atlanta woman who shared only the same first name with a suspect is imprisoned for 53 days. She was only released because the victim of the crime testified that this was not the "Teresa" that attacked him.

A disabled Atlanta woman says she was sitting outside and waiting for the ice cream man when a cop showed up and ordered her to move. When she refused—because she wasn't in anyone's way, or doing anything wrong—the cop allegedly threw her to the ground.

Tiny Payout In TSA Breast Exposure Lawsuit
Texan, 24, paid $2350 to settle airport frisking claim

JUNE 1--The U.S. government paid a paltry $2350 to settle a lawsuit brought by a Texas woman who sued the Transportation Security Administration after her breasts were exposed during a vigorous frisking at a Texas airport, records show.

The City of Boston has agreed to pay Simon Glik $170,000 in damages and legal fees to settle a civil rights lawsuit. Glik was arrested in 2007 on Boston Common for using his cell phone to record the arrest of another man. Police then arrested Glik, too, and charged him under the strict Massachusetts wiretapping statute. They eventually dropped the charges, but with the help of the Massachusetts ACLU, Glik filed a civil lawsuit against the city for false arrest.

A woman in Houston, Texas, was arrested and jailed for 12 hours after she held up a make-shift sign to warn drivers about a speed trap.

Natalie Plummer was officially charged with walking in the roadway -- jaywalking, essentially -- though she says the police officers who arrested her were just angry that she had tipped off speeders.

An Atlanta man claims he was arrested for catching an on-duty officer chatting on Facebook.

Quartzite, AZ City Council has police arrest woman speaking at city council meeting for saying things they don't want heard.