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Forty to Fifty people arrested by Marriott, Times Square

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Posted by booger
Email: raphe27 (nospam) juno.com (unverified!)
Modified: 11:43:50 AM
Last night forty to fifty people, according to one of the only demonstrators who escaped, were arbitrarily arrested right outside the Marriott in Times Square where many delegates are staying. Rosaline Johnson watched her son get arrested after the two protesters, along with about forty to forty five others were arbitrarily arrested as they were greeting delegates outside the Time Square Marriott Sunday night. "We were standing on the side walk just watching what's going on and there was a little metal fence [overhang] behind us," said Johnson. And the police came along and said 'everybody get under the fence, get off the street.' So we did." After being told to move to a part of the sidewalk where there was an overhang for construction, the police surrounded the protesters without an order to disperse. "They came along with this big orange fence. As soon as we got under the [overhang], they surrounded us with this orange fence." Five minutes later, the police arrested everyone inside the fence, except Johnson an a few corporate media reporters.

"An' we wudn't doin' nuffin'!"

"My son and his friends are in the paddy wagon. Then they said I could go." When asked if they were blocking the sidewalk by another reporter, Johnson replied we were standing under the metal fence [overhang] like they asked us to do. Less than an hour later, police used the same tactic - surrounding protesters with an orange fence and then arresting them - to arbitrarily arrest two dozen or so more portesters with the same charges of blocking a sidewalk, kiddy-corner from the Marriott. Below is a link to that second series in arrests in Time Square.

Thanks for keeping us up to date, Booger...

Posted by: Fred 2004-08-30

http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=41900