Wednesday, April 13, 2005

What?!? The police told a lie?!?!

You may have heard about all those violent protestors at the Republican convention this year in New York. They must have been very violent, because over 1,000 people were arrested. At one recent trial, a policeman testified that the defendant had to be subdued and carried off by 4 police officers because he was so beligerant. Well, according to a videotape of what actually happened, the man was arrested by only one officer and walked calmly to the police vehicle after being cuffed. In fact, the officer that gave such a vivid testimony of this man kicking, biting, scrathing, and committing all other forms of assault was not even actually at the scene. And this has been the norm for many of the trials. Oh, and this informaiton didn't come from indymedia or some other hippie site, but from that fairly reputable New York Times.

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