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NY judge hears arguments over 2004 RNC arrests
Source: Associated Press
NY judge hears arguments over 2004 RNC arrests
AP foreign, Friday June 1 2012
LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press= NEW YORK (AP) — A judge considering the merits of dozens of lawsuits against the city for 1,800 arrests during the 2004 Republican National Convention was critical of some of the actions of police as he listened to arguments Thursday from lawyers for those arrested and the city.
U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan seemed particularly disappointed by some of the actions he saw police take on videotapes he reviewed prior to several hours of arguments in a packed Manhattan courtroom. He questioned whether police did enough to separate people who were doing something illegal like blocking traffic from bystanders or people walking to work, a process he called "separating the dolphins from the tuna."
He said police allowed one sidewalk march by protesters in downtown Manhattan to proceed until a police official who "loses his head" suddenly stopped the march after less than a block, trapping the protesters with anyone else on the block and setting off mass arrests.
"I mean the rest of the cops looked utterly confused as to why" the police official "is going nuts," Sullivan said.
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AP foreign, Friday June 1 2012
LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press= NEW YORK (AP) — A judge considering the merits of dozens of lawsuits against the city for 1,800 arrests during the 2004 Republican National Convention was critical of some of the actions of police as he listened to arguments Thursday from lawyers for those arrested and the city.
U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan seemed particularly disappointed by some of the actions he saw police take on videotapes he reviewed prior to several hours of arguments in a packed Manhattan courtroom. He questioned whether police did enough to separate people who were doing something illegal like blocking traffic from bystanders or people walking to work, a process he called "separating the dolphins from the tuna."
He said police allowed one sidewalk march by protesters in downtown Manhattan to proceed until a police official who "loses his head" suddenly stopped the march after less than a block, trapping the protesters with anyone else on the block and setting off mass arrests.
"I mean the rest of the cops looked utterly confused as to why" the police official "is going nuts," Sullivan said.
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