Posted on 09/10/2004 10:54:56 AM PDT by presidio9
Good old Wendy wasn't arrested for photography. She was arrested for a combination of diseases, diarhea of the mouth and stupidity. Don't mess with a police officer while they are making an arrest.
BUSH/CHENEY IN 2004
not this kids from long island - he's legit, and he will win money from the city, and he should.
I agree with your position but I am just reminded of some things, like the computer CEO who donated millions to Al Gore's Florida recount effort under the guise of being a "Republican" who saw that Al Gore won. While he may have been "registered" as a Republican, there is nothing to say he wasn't a Democrat who registered to push for McCain over Bush. On his own website, the CEO said that he had never before encountered a politician who he agreed with ALL of the issues. The press never questioned him on his claims of being a "Republican", they loved the irony and how it showed that there were even Republicans who "knew" that Al Gore got "cheated".
There is a special charge called "assaulting an officer". Even self-defense is labelled "resisting arrest". You may be able to push a strong enough case against the police actions to have them drop the charges against you but you will have a hard time disproving their charges.
Interfering with a police arrest is just that.
Plenty of people are being arrested for photographing tall buildings and industrial sites even when such photography is being done from public streets.
If the thousands of people had been arrested for throwing punches, resisting arrest, or photographing sites that were considered terrorist targets, that still would not justify the illegal delays and conditions they were subjected to in custody. Not that it matters, because those aren't the crimes that were committed. 81% were charged with "disorderly conduct" and most of the rest were charged with lighter stuff.
What happened in NYC is quite far from the ideal case you're presenting. Most of these people were naive, not stupid, and they were not throwing punches at cops. The cops were out to capture as many potential protestors as possible and put them out of action for as many days as they could keep them behind a fence. The police cordoned off peaceful protests and arrested everyone inside the netting. They were going for volume. If you were inside the netting, you were going to the docks for two days or more of sh!thole conditions. That's not what freedom of assembly means.
The GOP should not have their rights trampled by the anarchist-socialists.
What you're saying has no relation to what actually happened.
I'm glad the NYPD took care of the jacka$$es who got onto the floor of the convention, ditto the anarcho-socialists, as well as anyone who was trying to prevent the convention from taking place.
The problem was that they didn't discriminate among which marches they scooped up for arrest nor among the people who happened to be on the sidewalks at the time.
If you believe this is true, you have zero understanding of NYC or how crowds behave there. Everybody had plenty of time to avoid arrest if they so chose.
again the number 47 appears!
this is getting weird.
In a city full of violent protesters, don't get involved trying to help one who is being arrested unless you're willing to take an arrest yourself.
The poor man didn't do anything IN YOUR SIGHT. He may have seriously injured a policeman. You don't know.
If you want someone to come and take pictures, you back off, go in a shop, and make your call.
You don't stand over a policeman trying to cuff a suspect, yelling invective at them, and start calling a 'friend' saying, "Come take pictures of this."
Freaking idiot woman. Typical liberal.
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