Protesters warned: Hands off the cops

[54anickel]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/11/11/trade.police.reut/index.html

"We expect our police officers to be insulted, their masculinity to be challenged, their ethnicity to be challenged, their parentage to be challenged and they must take it, they know that," Chief John Timoney told Reuters.

"You can yell, scream, say anything you want ... (but) keep your hands to yourself. Put your hands on a police officer and you're in a lot of trouble," said Timoney, promising such offenders would land in jail.

A city ordinance expected to gain final approval Thursday would ban glass bottles, slingshots, signs on wooden sticks and giant puppets.

There goes their plan to topple Georgies statue :(

[peekaloo]

1. pan-American trade talks in Miami

Were they planning a statue toppling or are you confusing this with the London "festivities"?

:-)

[54anickel]

4. Perhaps I did confuse the two...There are just soooo damn

many protests being planned these days. Ain't free speech great! Maybe they should burn a flag while they still have a chance. Burn one for each country being represented!

[peekaloo]

5. lol I hear ya....so many protests, so little time

Wouldn't be a tad surprised though if a similar story eventually emerges from London. What with "exclusion zones" and "Al Qadea evility" it seems something has to give in order for Boosh not to stain his panties.

;-)

[54anickel]

7. There is just so MUCH going on, it's a big mangled

mess in my head. Thanks for untangling that cobweb for me.:-)

[w4rma]

2. No signs can be held by a stick? No large puppets?

That seems like a clamp down on expressions of speech, rather than being done for safety.

I wonder if guns are banned or if CNN didn't mention that because they don't want the right-wing to understand that Republicans support total bans of guns.

[chenGOD]

8. No signs on wooden sticks....

didn't say anything about metal or plastic sticks though? heh heh.

I understand what you're saying though. What a joke. Are they that scared of what someone will write on a sign?

[Petronius Arbiter]

9. I think the issue is more the stick (or bar or pole) than the sign

although I'm a bit puzzled by the giant puppets - those little tuxedo-clad dummies can be insulting, but I've never seen one get violent...

[Mika]

3. More press "embedding"

From the CNN link,

Borrowing a page from the Pentagon's Iraq war plan, Miami police set up a program to give journalists front-line access by "embedding" them with the bicycle patrols, Coast Guard crews and "rapid response" units securing the meeting area.

:puke:

[number6]

13. in bed ..ing

:evilgrin:

[0007]

6. CNN is suck a joke! 'Tis the White House hot line, 'eh?

God bless America
land that I love......

[bleedingheart]

10. what if you try to "cop a feel"

i could not help myself...hahaha

:evilgrin:

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. It's like George Carlin explained the use of the word "prick"

It's okay if it happens to your finger. Yes, you can prick your finger, but don't finger...

[smallprint]

11. "Cops warned: Hands off the protestors"

Now that would be a better story.

[soup]

14. It sure would, but

don't expect it from John Timoney, chief of police-

"You just have to make sure that you keep one hand around one of their throats"
--Timoney's method for managing protesters (Washington Post, 8/3/00)

http://www.waste.org/~roadrunner/writing/camilo/timquotes.html

[smallprint]

15. ugghh

what a cretin.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. Oh great..Miami got Timony and we got Bratton