Posted on 02/04/2002 12:09:13 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:03:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
BLEAH!
A handcuffed protester strikes a rude pose after cops arrested a bunch of anti-World Economic Forum demonstrators in the East Village yesterday.
February 4, 2002 -- THE cops in riot gear rushed forward with such intensity, a dozen of us protesters crashed into the table of a panic-stricken merchant selling oil paintings.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Was it clear to the officer that he was a reporter, or was the reporter a conservative under cover pretending to be an agitator?
and if Sgt. Burton thought he was using fake papers he should have arrested him!
I think the reporter is fudging the truth!!
Or the Sgt. was on triple overtime and maybe didn't put 2 and 2 together!!
In which case a shove and no arrest isn't the worst sin!!
When I was a kid in Brooklyn the Cops would say "I'll give you a break this time" and give you a hop in the ass and spill out the beer!! We didn't mind!!
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