{"id":8866,"date":"2011-10-24T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8866"},"modified":"2011-10-24T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T21:15:28","slug":"albany-refuse-to-arrest-ows-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8866","title":{"rendered":"Albany & NY State Police Defy Governor, Mayor; Refuse to Arrest OWS Demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now this<\/i> is more like it. As described by RAW STORY…<\/a><\/p>\n

Occupy Albany protesters in New York’s capital city received an unexpected ally over the week: The state and local authorities.<\/p>\n

According to the Albany Times Union<\/i><\/a>, New York state troopers and Albany police did not adhere to a curfew crackdown on protesters urged by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and Albany mayor Gerald Jennings.<\/p>\n

Mass arrests seemed to be in the cards once Jennings directed officers to enforce the curfew on roughly 700 protesters occupying the city owned park.
\n…
\nWith protesters acting peacefully, local and state police agreed that low level arrests could cause a riot, so they decided instead to defy Cuomo and Jennings.<\/p><\/div>\n

What part of the Constitutional First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” do so many of the other cops across the nation not yet understand<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

By the way, with Cuomo’s attempted crackdown and Obama’s former Chief of Staff, now Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel’s approval of the arrests<\/a> of 175 peaceful Occupiers in Chicago over the weekend, can we stop with the “Occupiers are just fronts for Democrats!” bullshit yet?<\/p>\n

As registered nurses — a number of whom were held in jail for some 23 hours after being arrested Saturday night, early Sunday morning while offering medical services to demonstrators in Grant Park — protested the arrests<\/a> outside Emanuel’s office this morning, he was quoted by the Chicago Trib<\/i> as saying: “I have to enforce the law as well as respect peoples’ 1st Amendment rights.”<\/p>\n

And when those two things come in to conflict, which one do you suppose Emanuel decided took precedence over the other?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

Also…not from Albany, though somewhat related to the above. From from New York City, via ThinkProgress<\/a>, a couple of weeks ago…<\/p>\n

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