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Karma

The “victims” were treated badly

The demonstrators arrived angry, departed furious. The police had herded them into pens. Stopped them from handing out fliers. Threatened them with arrest for standing on public sidewalks. Made notes on which politicians they cheered and which ones they razzed.

Meanwhile, officers from a special unit videotaped their faces, evoking for one demonstrator the unblinking eye of George Orwell’s “1984.”

“That’s Big Brother watching you,” the demonstrator, Walter Liddy, said in a deposition.

The “victims” then tasted their own medicine and found it bitter

Mr. Liddy’s complaint about police tactics, while hardly novel from a big-city protester, stands out because of his job: He is a New York City police officer. The rallies he attended were organized in the summer of 2004 by his union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, to protest the pace of contract talks with the city.

Now the officers, through their union, are suing the city, charging that the police procedures at their demonstrations — many of them routinely used at war protests, antipoverty marches and mass bike rides — were so heavy-handed and intimidating that their First Amendment rights were violated

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3 Responses to “Karma”

  1. Marc Says:

    Steve Bellows, prisoner, Family Guy: “Is this what I’ve been doing to people?? God… I belong in here.”

  2. robert Says:

    I always label any letters to politicians: “Petiton for Redress of Grievances.”

    Scares hell out of them by making things clearer about who exactly is who.

  3. tgirsch Says:

    robert:

    Actually, I’m betting it just makes it easier for them to dismiss you as a nutcase.

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