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The Occupy Wall Street suits against cops keep coming.

A Queens-born journalist is claiming city cops beat and illegally arrested him while he was covering, not the Occupy Wall Street protest itself, but its one-year anniversary.

The Manhattan federal court lawsuit against the city and NYPD was filed Tuesday by Chris Faraone, who now lives in Massachusetts and writes for the alternative weekly Boston Phoenix. Faraone claims he was maliciously charged with disorderly conduct and warned to stop reporting in the Big Apple – even though he was lawfully “photographing, observing and investigating” a demonstration at 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza on Sept. 17, 2012.

Faraone claims one cop ordered other cops to “stop, tackle, batter, search, arrest, detain and imprison” him, without probable cause.

“During his detention and upon his release, Mr. Faraone was directed and/or threatened by the defendants to cease his journalism/reporting activities in the city of New York” in violation of the First Amendment, the suit charges.

A Law Department spokesperson said it would “review the allegations in the complaint upon receipt.”

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