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NYC police during the Republican Convention

The court cases around arrests at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York have begun. And, well, let's just say the cops don't look so good:

Officer Wohl made several interesting assertions during his testimony suggesting to some that the falsification of arrest documents and police testimony may have been part of some sort of concerted effort by people involved in security planning for the RNC.

At one point, Wohl testified that his captain told him to arrest everyone within a certain area. Later, he stated that he could not really tell the difference between protestors, bystanders, and people merely coming and going from the library. The combination of an officer unable to discern between supposed suspects and innocent pedestrians, and an order from superior officers to make mass arrests based on geographic location rather than specific incidents, would seem to suggest there is a very real potential that large numbers of detainees were wrongly arrested and incarcerated.

This evidence indicates nothing less than state-sponsored repression of political dissent. Let no one doubt this.

posted by JWL at 12:48 AM |