Twitter has bowed to threats of substantial fines and released messages sent by Occupy Wall Street protester Malcolm Harris relating to the arrest of roughly 700 people at a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge in October 2011.

Harris has said police encouraged protesters onto the bridge to make it easier to arrest them. The NYPD maintains demonstrators were commanded not to cross the bridge.

Twitter had refused to hand over the messages for months, saying that doing so would undermine privacy laws and its commitment to its users.

— Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.