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NYC Police Crush the U.S. Constitution Right to Peaceful Assembly under Iron Boot

Question:

And the protest leaders had reason to believe that New York residents were behind them, as 68% approved of non-violent civil disobedience, while 70% disapproved of Bush, in a recent poll. At around 5:45PM there was a gentle crowd on the front steps of the Public Library, checking out the eclectic array of banners with messages relating to topics from ecology to Che Guevera. Nothing too wild was going on. But then out of the blue, a group of cops jumped on several protestors with no warning of their advance and mayhem erupted. Here the cops were true bullies. They threw an elderly man to the ground.. NYC Police [without allowing protesters a warning to disperse where it's legal to order them to dispurse] trapped marchers in no-escape cul de sacs, and surrounded groups and individuals in orange netting as though they were capturing schools of fish. Police arrested hundreds (the New York Times reports at least 900), perhaps more than 1,000. Most of the arrested were young people who were merely exercizing their right to free and peaceful assembly. A [whistleblower] GOP staffer told Newsweek reporter Elanor Clift this past week at the Swift Boat strategy

Filed under: Civil disobedience

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