in custody joining me now for more on the lawsuit is one of the named plaintiffs in this case michael prysner he's an activist and founder of march forward he's also an iraq war veteran and a medical thank you for joining us this christmas eve so i have to ask what prompted you and others to file this class action lawsuit. oh well quite plainly of the fact that our civil liberties our constitutional rights were stripped away from us from committing no criminal acts but doing nothing but exercising our constitutional rights of freedom of speech and freedom to assemble those are right for the city of los angeles not just the city of l.a. but cities all across the country everywhere there is an occupying decided that our right to free speech no longer exists and that the state on a local level and on a national level use all of the force in its power to take away that constitutional right for many thousands of people who are exercising their right to protest for very legitimate reason because of the jobs crisis because of the student debt crisis and many other issues and so we're fighting on thi