The last three protestors held on absurd charges for demonstrating against Philadelphia's Republican convention have finally been acquitted: Viveiros's case was bolstered by a videotape made by protesters showing that not only was he not near Timoney when the presumed assault took place but that he was arrested across the street several moments later, not at the scene as Timoney had previously testified. The video also contradicted testimony by other officers that Viveiros had resisted arrest by punching and kicking them--instead showing officers tackling him and punching him several times as he lay on the ground, unresisting. "I feel vindicated. This was a victory not only for me individually but for social movements that utilize the street to struggle for justice," said Viveiros, a housing advocate from Massachusetts, standing outside the courthouse after the trial. The case brings to a close the long ordeal of the more than 400 protesters arrested at the Philadelphia convention--with only a handful convicted of misdemeanors and the rest thrown out or disposed of by fines or probation. Among the "evidence" recounted to me by ACLU lawyers involved in the cases was use of a tool of conspiracy: a cell phone.