Smarting after GOP's party

[struggle4progress]

Few of 1,800 arrests panned out; convention officials cite security

09:25 PM CDT on Monday, May 16, 2005
By COLLEEN McCAIN NELSON / The Dallas Morning News

They were captured in nets, handcuffed and thrown into crowded jail cells.

For more than 1,800 protesters arrested at last year's Republican convention, free speech came at a price. Some are still fighting charges such as disorderly conduct and failure to disperse. Of those who have made their way through the judicial system, nine in 10 were not found guilty of anything.

Demonstrators say that New York City was transformed into a police state for the benefit of President Bush. They point to the lack of convictions as evidence that Republicans were more concerned with squelching dissent at their carefully scripted convention than with keeping the streets safe. <snip>

Many activists said the party and the police went too far, and a class-action lawsuit alleging that arrests were used as crowd control is under way. Also, New York officials recently agreed to pay a modest settlement to some of the protesters. <snip>

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[LiberalNerd]

1. Hipocrisy

I can't say i have numbers, but i'd be willing to bet that close to none of the few protesters at the Dem. Convention were arrested.

figures...