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5 Bush protestors charged with assaulting officer
News & Record ^ | 2/1/06 | staff

Posted on 02/01/2006 4:48:15 AM PST by Rebelbase

GREENSBORO — Five protestors attending an anti-Bush rally in Greensboro on Tuesday night assaulted a plain-clothes officer trying to take their picture, according to police.

Greensboro police described the following version of events, according to a press release:

As officers monitored a group of 130 protestors on Elm Street, a small portion of that crowd moved away, proceeding east on Lewis Street.

Several in the smaller group then assaulted a plain-clothes officer as he tried to photograph them, police said.

Uniformed officers then responded to that area.

Kenneth Wayne Harris, 24, of 621 Fairmont St., was charged with assault on a government official, public disturbance and carrying a concealed weapon. Harris was released on a $500 bond, a Guilford County jail employee said this morning.

Zachary Harrell Jones, 21, of 902 W. Market St., and Andrew James O'Hara, 26, of 1312 W. Market St., were charged with assault on a government official, public disturbance and delay and obstruct. They were each released on a $500 bond.

George Lawrence Saba, 22, of 621 Fairmont St., was charged with assault on a government official and public disturbance. Saba was released on a $500 bond.

Kyle Daniel Whisenant, 22, of 2627 Walker Ave., was charged with assault on a government official, public disturbance, carrying a concealed weapon and delay and obstruct. Whisenant was released on a $1,000 bond.

Erik Lee Stephens, 20, of 311 S. Mendenhall, and Marissa Reneee Csanvi, 22, of 1312 W. Market St., were charged with public disturbance.

The rally was one of dozens held across the nation on the night President Bush delivered his annual address before Congress.

The events were organized by a group called World Can't Wait, which aims to "Drive out the Bush regime." The group is organizing a protest this weekend in Washington.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
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To: Mr. Brightside
If he ID'd himself the charges are warranted. But if not, it sounds a little too big brother to me.

I'd like to see the specifics on those concealed weapons charges, too. Any bets they were jack knives, or something similar? If so, I'd begin to smell a distinct odor of bull--it about the whole thing.

Photographing lawful protesters is pretty objectionable.

41 posted on 02/01/2006 6:43:54 AM PST by Grut
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To: StarCMC

Thanks for a ping for a great article.


42 posted on 02/01/2006 6:48:31 AM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: Grut

Photographing objectors is objectionable? How so?


43 posted on 02/01/2006 6:50:18 AM PST by CheyennePress
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To: Grut
I don't see a problem with photographing protesters.

If you are doing something in public, how can you complain that someone is taking your picture? They were protesting to gain attention, right?

No different than someone giving a speech in public. Can they complain because a law enforcement officer tapes the speech?

Regardless, I don't like the idea of someone getting treated more severely for assaulting a plain clothes cop than assaulting me.
44 posted on 02/01/2006 6:53:54 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: tgslTakoma; Doctor Raoul; Coop; Landry Fan; BufordP

Two of the arrested peace protestors charged with illegally carrying concealed weapons.

All were attacking a plain-clothes officer for simply taking their photo.

I wonder how many FReepers have been assaulted for simply taking photos of leftists. tgslTakoma must hold the record for number of times attacked.


45 posted on 02/01/2006 6:55:08 AM PST by BillF (Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
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To: Landry Fan
When Pacifist Attack.

Peace Rioters Unhinged.

Stop the Left Wing Violence.

46 posted on 02/01/2006 7:07:16 AM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: CheyennePress
Photographing objectors is objectionable? How so?

People (that includes objectors) have the Right to go about their business without government interference or monitoring, so long as they're not breaking the law. How would you have felt if, during the Clinton years, police had routinely photographed people attending conservative churches?

47 posted on 02/01/2006 7:08:24 AM PST by Grut
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To: Rebelbase

I love it when freedom-loving progressives act like Brownshirts.


48 posted on 02/01/2006 7:12:43 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Mr. Brightside
I remember a story of cops who with guns drawn, broke into the wrong house, arrested the home-owner for pointing a gun at them.

cory maye. he shot one of the cops, and is now on death row.
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/025962.php
49 posted on 02/01/2006 7:18:17 AM PST by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: Grut
Photographing lawful protesters is pretty objectionable.

Yeah, it rates right up there with not sorting your recyclables.

There oughta be a law...

If they didn't want anyone photographing them, why did they stage their protest out on a public street?

If they wanted privacy they should have held their protest in their mom's basement.

I don't think protesters can claim an expectation of privacy while banging pots and pans and yelling what some people might consider objectionable words, on a public throughway.

50 posted on 02/01/2006 7:23:20 AM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: pgyanke
Right on about "Wayne". I was surprised to see there wasn't that other infamous middle name, "Earl".

Leni

51 posted on 02/01/2006 7:26:46 AM PST by MinuteGal ("FReeps Ahoy 4" thread is up. Click red "4" in Keywords list on top of "Latest Posts" page)
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To: SampleMan
Something which is always overlooked about the great public support for WWII is that the left was firmly agitated against US involvement until on specific event. The invasion of the USSR.

When Hitler started rolling a hundred miles a day toward Moscow, and hundreds of thousands of Soviets had been captured, the communists sent out directives to get the US involved. The communists (leftists, progressives, fellow travelers) turned from devout pacifists to raging warmongers over night. However, their loyalty was never to the United States.

Overlooked by many, yes, but not by me. This is a point I'm always fond of making - a "good war" is one where we were doing Uncle Joe's, the friendly Bolshevik's, bidding.

Another delicious irony. The great Woody Guthrie was famous for having the inscription "This machine kills fascists" prominently displayed on his guitar.

That is until the day the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was signed. Then the inscription quickly disappeared.

Lenin was not kidding around when he coined the phrase "useful idiots" - he hit the nail right on the hairy, smelly head!

52 posted on 02/01/2006 7:28:37 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten (Is your problem ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Grut
How would you have felt if, during the Clinton years, police had routinely photographed people attending conservative churches?

First, there is a difference between participating in a public protest on a public street or park, and going into a church for a service.

I don't recall anyone taking my photo as I entered a church, but I do recall having cameras trained on me as I participated in RKBA events in public places. I never felt the need to go slug the photographer, no matter who he was. Some were Maryland LEOs, but I had no expectation of privacy while out on a public street or park.

53 posted on 02/01/2006 7:30:59 AM PST by tgslTakoma
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To: Grut

The purpose of a protest demonstration is to be noticed. And to get your picture taken and hopefully shown on the local and/or national news.


54 posted on 02/01/2006 7:58:00 AM PST by pepperdog
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To: Mr. Brightside

I was thinking the same thing. These "peace" protestors are idiots but there is just something completely wrong about being charged with assaulting an officer if the officer was dressed in plain clothes.


55 posted on 02/01/2006 8:20:37 AM PST by frankiep
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To: pepperdog
Pack these "useful idiots" aboard a plane and drop them outside the green zone in Iraq. Lets see how many assaults they live through there!
56 posted on 02/01/2006 8:20:59 AM PST by Jacques Sherock (Jacques Sherock)
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To: BillF
I wonder how many FReepers have been assaulted for simply taking photos of leftists

It happened at virtually every SF counter-protest before the invasion of Iraq. One dummy just jumped right at one of our guys who had a video camera, and there were like three cops fifteen feet away. They dragged him away real quick.

These people have less sense than a rabid dog.

57 posted on 02/01/2006 8:23:10 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Rebelbase
Another story from the local tv news, WFMY

Protesters Clash With Police In Greensboro

The group "World Can't Wait" was protesting President Bush and the State of the Union.

Greensboro, NC -- A group protesting President Bush and the State of the Union address clashed with police Tuesday night in Greensboro.

The group 'World Can't Wait' planned a peaceful rally and protest in downtown Greensboro. 130 people turned out for the event.

But things got out of control when some protestors saw people they believed were undercover police officers taking pictures of their license plates. Police say a small group broke away from the main procession and assaulted a plain-clothes officer as he tried to photograph them. Other officers were called to the scene to make sure no other violence occurred.

Police arrested seven protesters. They charged five of them with assault on a government official. The two others were charged with public disturbance.

Some protesters say they were asking police questions when police used pepper spray on them. One person was taken to the hospital after getting sprayed with pepper spray.

58 posted on 02/01/2006 8:37:40 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: angkor

oh... I see. the world can twait?


59 posted on 02/01/2006 10:47:53 AM PST by Rakkasan1 (Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
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To: angkor
WCW is a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party.

The RCP's symbols are a flag with RCP on it flying from a rifle and bayonet and their "Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigades" use an upraised arem with a cleched fist, not exactly a "peace symbol".....and oh yeah, the cleched fist cleches an AK-47 Assaulyt Weapon.

How about liberals banning their participation in rallies run by those who have assault weapons as their symbol? That's an "assault weapons ban" I could support.

60 posted on 02/01/2006 1:51:37 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (COLD PINK: Frigid Womyn For Peace)
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