Police arrest a man during a march against the Republican National Convention in New York Monday, Aug. 30, 2004.
Posted on 08/30/2004 11:06:55 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
(08-30) 21:01 PDT NEW YORK (AP) --
A march against the Bush administration turned ugly Monday when a protester repeatedly stomped and punched a plainclothes detective and hundreds of officers in riot gear pushed demonstrators away from the site of the Republican convention, witnesses and police said.
The detective, William Sample, was briefly knocked unconscious and was hospitalized with head injuries that were not life-threatening. His assailant escaped and was being sought by police.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly called it "a blatant, vicious attack."
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Hope the officer gets better.
Hope the dirtbag who did this gets locked up.
Hope the public gets wind of this and sees the true nature of the 'anybody but bush' crowd.
I am sick of this crap. Giuliani or Cheney should be on TV tomorrow demanding that Kerry call off his goons.
Police arrest a man during a march against the Republican National Convention in New York Monday, Aug. 30, 2004.
apparently part of it was on nightline
BTTT
Probably protesting for "peace"...prayers for the officers on the line to protect our citizens from these goons.
Is this the officer that was first reportedly "knocked off his motorcycle"? Or this another incident?
I hope the cop takes him to a nice secluded alley where they can have a "chat".
A whole week in Boston and NOTHING. One day in NYC and the peaceful, pacifist, Pro-Kerry folks are already showing their true colors.
I am not sure if its the same incident...
tomorrow is supposed to be real bad...
(New York- WABC August 31, 2004) — Police are bracing for a number of orchestrated demonstrations on Tuesday. Protest leaders are threatening civil disobedience and police say large numbers of arrests are expected.
Media were denied at a strategy session of activists and anarchists in Brooklyn Monday night. When we arrived in the warehouse where they were meeting, we were politely asked to leave. Outside though, a number of protestors- many here from the west coast solely for tomorrow's day of disobedience - did speak, and told us they're here because they oppose violence.
But it was clear by a standoff between protestors and police on Eighth Avenue Monday night, that some welcome and encouraged confrontation with the cops
Fire hose time! They don't have anything that can't be cured with a 3" line.
Posted on Tue, Aug. 31, 2004
Some protesters get ugly with GOP delegates
Angry demonstrators and planned campaigns of harassment greet some Republicans out on the town in New York.
BY RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
New York Times
NEW YORK - Outside a hotel in Times Square, delegates to the Republican National Convention were swarmed by protesters dressed in black and swearing at them. Blocks away, delegates engaged in shoving matches with protesters seeking to spoil their night at the theater. And outside "The Lion King" on 42nd Street, a delegate was punched by a protester who ran by.
Although the organized protests Sunday and Monday have been largely peaceful, there has been a starkly different tone to smaller incidents in Midtown and elsewhere: angry encounters and planned harassment of convention delegates as they go out on the town.
Sometimes the delegates answer back in toe-to-toe, finger-pointing shouting matches. Other times the police, who are guarding delegate gatherings, have dispersed protesters, who move on to other locations to taunt other delegates.
Because platoons of heavily armed police are guarding the convention site at Madison Square Garden, anarchists and other radicals are carrying out a coordinated plan to strike out at delegates at their hotels, breakfasts, parties, and on the streets.
The incidents are the result of months of planning by opposition groups, who report that they have obtained copies of plans and addresses for delegates' parties, caucuses and other functions outside the convention site.
The harassment of delegates has been occurring as organized protests continue to draw thousands of people daily. The Still We Rise march by advocates for social issues was peaceful, and a Poor People's March, a column several blocks long, proceeded from the United Nations to Madison Square Garden on Monday after the police decided to let it proceed even though organizers had not obtained a permit.
The police are bracing for another round of unsanctioned demonstrations today, which protesters have designated a day of "nonviolent civil disobedience and direct action."
Monday, Jamie Moran, who lives in Brooklyn, describes himself as an anarchist and helps direct the RNCnotwelcome.org Web site, was roaming Times Square with a band of protesters shouting at delegates. "These people are in a bubble," he said. "This is absolutely better than standing outside the Garden and shouting to let them know they are not welcome here."
The Rev. Lou Sheldon, a delegate from Anaheim, Calif., said he was greeted by protesters outside the Marriott Marquis Hotel when he arrived Sunday night.
"They started screaming and yelling, 'Shame, shame, shame,' " he said.
"It's disgusting. You spend X number of hundreds of dollars to come here, and you have to put up with this."
Why won't the GOP reward a "red" City with the convention? Aside from San Diego in 1996, they always hold them in enemy territory.
I was thinking more in the flame throwing line myself.
No one can stand against a 3" line. It will wash you (gurgling) down the street, or wash you and the lawn you stand on away.
Besides, it leaves the sidewalks soooo squeaky clean....just don't break windows with it.
Prayers for the undercover man and the cops.
May Hellfire rain down on the protesters!
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