NYPD ABUSED PROTESTORS

I know, I know, you're not suprised at the head line of this story. Well, neither was I, but what the hey, I gotta talk about it since the mainstream press isn't. Thank God for blogs or else none of us would know what's really going on in the world. I've seen no coverage of the treatment of those protesting the RNC last week. Even the Daily Show ignored the thousands that were arrested over the span of the convention. Anyway, what follows is an excerpt from an email posted over at On Lisa Rein's Radar. The email is an account of how protestors were treated once they were arrested for doing nothing but walking down the street in a large group. The account comes from a guy called Eddie Codel of Eddie.com and he was one of the arrested:

I was released Thursday, September 2nd at around noon after being detained for 40 hours. I was one of 1200 people arrested in a 4-hour period on Tuesday night during RNC week in New York City. I along with many others were not actively engaging in civil disobedience or otherwise doing anything other than walking down a sidewalk talking pictures. The police penned in a whole block near Union Square and arrested everyone within. We were all taken to Pier 57, now infamously being called Guantanamo on the Hudson due to it's chain link fencing and razor wire. Most of us were held there for at least 12 hours under filthy and crowded conditions. The place had been a former city bus garage. The cement floor has accumulated years of motor oil, diesel fuel, antifreeze and who knows what other chemicals. During my stay, there were few benches in the smaller cages and none at all in the larger cage. People were forced to lie down on the bare toxic concrete to try and sleep away the hours. After some processing, we were taken by prison bus to Central Booking aka The Tombs. The next 28 hours were an endless series of shuffling from cell to cell, multiple searches, subhuman food, mind control and frustration. It wasn't until 20 hours into the process that I was allowed a phone call and not until the end of my 40 order hour ordeal was I able to see a lawyer and soon thereafter, a judge.

It really happened folks, nobody made it up. These people were illegally detained, probably to keep them from protesting.

Not so free a country after all, it would seem.

Check out Eddie's entire email posted over OnLisaReinsRadar.com.

Better yet, head over to Eddie.com and read his longer account of exactly what happened. It's a damn good read. Check it out.