Posted on 10/29/2011 9:39:44 AM PDT by markomalley
State troopers for the second straight night arrested anti-Wall Street protesters for defying a new nighttime curfew imposed by the Republican governor, in an effort to disband an encampment near the state Capitol in Nashville.
And also, for a second time, a Nashville night judge dismissed the arrest warrants.
The Tennessean newspaper reported early Saturday morning that Magistrate Tom Nelson told troopers delivering the protesters to jail that he could "find no authority anywhere for anyone to authorize a curfew anywhere on Legislative Plaza."
Occupy Nashville protesters - including many of the 29 arrested in a pre-dawn raid on Friday - returned to the Legislative Plaza that evening and remained through the 10 p.m. curfew.
There was no noticeable law enforcement presence for nearly two hours after the curfew went into effect on Friday night, while adjacent theaters let out and patrons filtered back through the plaza to their cars without being challenged for violating the restrictions.
"Nothing was done to them, they were not arrested," said protester Michael Custer, 46. "But we are arrested while we are expressing our constitutional right to free speech."
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Like Meth animals..They can’t be stopped until they break themselves all up.
If it’s State that arrested em transport em to the other end of the state to jail and arraign them...... Whoo Hoo free bus ride THERE..... walk back to yer protest a few hundred miles away if judge releases em.
Displace the Displaced Dummies per se.......
Tase ‘em Bro!
You can stop these people from getting arrested multiple times. Just keep them in jail.
Dude, no one is denying you your right to express your free speech but where it is done can be regulated. The Clinton admin saw to that back in his day.
The magistrate (most certainly a far left loon) is not allowing them to be booked. He is claiming the state apparently can’t regulate state property. So despite the law, the police take them into custody and the magistrate refuses to book them. This has happened twice so far.
“curfew imposed by the Republican governor,”
The whores in the “media” don’t miss a trick, do they? What if the governor were a dimocrat?
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