Police Union Allowed To Picket ('Rats Have To Run Cop Gauntlet At Convention -- HA HA HA!)

The Boston Globe ^ | 6/4/04 | Rick Klein and Kevin Joy

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

A federal judge has cleared the way for the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association to picket all FleetCenter entrances starting Tuesday morning, meaning construction workers charged with readying the arena for next month's Democratic National Convention will have to make their way past lines of police officers.

The ruling was a victory for the police union, which sued for the right to assemble on FleetCenter property after demonstrating patrolmen were turned away from the city's convention contract-signing ceremony at the arena in late 2002. It comes at a particularly sensitive time for the city as it tries to calm labor disputes in the weeks running up to before the convention.

[knarf]

"The ruling was a victory for the police union, which sued for the right to assemble on FleetCenter property after demonstrating patrolmen were turned away from the city's convention contract-signing ceremony at the arena in late 2002. It comes at a particularly sensitive time for the city as it tries to calm labor disputes in the weeks running up to before the convention."

The implications are stupendous!

A RAT convention in a commie city and Boston's finest cripples the whole shebang and invites the world to look in.

The RATS will act as if nothing is wrong and try to look, oh so capable, when in fact, not only will the emperor have no clothes, but the cops have them sealed up in an evidence locker.

I'm really enjoying this.

[Don Corleone]

Would'nt it be fun if they refused to cross the picket lines like really good union democrats?

[thoughtomator]

I wonder if they'll bring out the Union Rat?

Union Rat assaulting aide to Kweisi Mfume, outside the Democrat convention site

[NorseWood]

What is the status of this picket line by the police?