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Wonkette:Protesters gear up for N.Y.
By Steve Miller
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Thousands of protesters plan to converge on New York this summer for the Republican National Convention and already are promoting their antiestablishment events through Web sites and word of mouth.
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"Over 1,000 groups have filed applications for demonstration permits," said Kevin Sheekey, special adviser to New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. "Some are large, some are small. And we've got the people to handle this."
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The 36,000-officer New York Police Department will handle most of the street action, which usually results in arrests and detentions, and sometimes violence.
In a passionate plea for funding earlier this month, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau told the City Council that arrests during the convention could reach 1,000 a day, three times the city's normal volume.
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Before September 11, 2001, protests routinely were handled as impediments to traffic and pedestrians, said Paul Browne, deputy police commissioner for the New York Police Department.
"But post 9/11, we have to assume that any large gathering that is highly publicized might be a target," Mr. Browne said. "In the past, we did not have officers assigned to intelligence to make sure there are no efforts to create havoc or loss of life. Now, we have a counterterrorism overlay..."
Thank God for the fair & balanced Moonie Times...
how much of the city do you think they'll put under barricaded lockdown as as "free-speech zone"?
― Kingfish Hypercolor (Kingfish), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)
it's pretty much just already-known statements, though. Just a summary article. Morgenthau already let loose his "estimate" earlier this month, it's not like the
Washington Times broke the story, or endorses it in the article (not that I like defending them, but still).
― hstencil, Monday, 29 March 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)
I read that they were anticipating up to a million people protesting the convention. It should be interesting, but Im sure some bad apples are gonna go fucking nuts and allow the republicans to make political hay out of it by blaming the democrats for the whole thing.
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)
one month passes...
I note that there's no location specified, so it might not be in New York. Liberty State Park, maybe?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)