We Have a First Amendment Right to Protest -- So Why All These Arrests Around Occupy Wall Street?: "Many of those detained won't face charges, but the arrests take them off the streets.
On Saturday night, 175 members of Occupy Chicago were arrested after refusing to comply with a curfew the city had imposed on Grant Park. According to In These Times editor Joe Macaré, the arrests took place “one by one, and by all accounts as peacefully as possible.”
It wasn't such an orderly process in New York. Allison Kilkenny reported for the Nation that “what unfolded [on Saturday] was a dramatic confrontation between the NYPD and protesters in which individuals were almost mowed down by police motorcycles, nearly trampled by horses, and ultimately ninety-two activists were arrested.”..."
2 comments:
Because Wall Street Pay for the police? The Oligarchy is really threatened.
Yeah that definitely doesn't help :(
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