Tag: Protests: Page 13

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Chicago's Top Cop Supports Recording of Police

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy wants lawmakers to overturn a 2010 Illinois law known as the Eavesdropping Act, which made it a Class 1 felony to record police officers performing their duties.

January 29, 2012

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Occupy: Clearing the Camps

In many cases the "Occupy" protestors illegally parlay their First Amendment rights of speech and peaceful assembly into literally taking over public areas for weeks and months, erecting tent cities.

January 22, 2012

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Radical Church to Picket Va. Tech Officer's Funeral

Six members of the WBC will be picketing, according to Fred Phelps Jr., son of WBC pastor Fred Phelps Sr. "The law enforcement across this nation has for years refused to do their duty and protect the people," Phelps Jr. said. "There is a price to be paid when you do that to God."

December 11, 2011

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Crowd Control Policy and the 'Occupy' Movement

Guess who the elected officials (or campus officials) send in to take down the tent cities and "evict" the protestors. (Do you have a mirror handy?)

December 5, 2011

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U.S. Park Police Arrest 31 Occupiers Over Wooden Structure

U.S. Park Police officers arrested 31 Occupy D.C. protesters who had erected a wooden structure in a park two blocks from the White House. Officers used a cherry picker to pluck several protesters from the roof of the structure on Sunday night.

December 4, 2011

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L.A. Under Tac Alert, Occupiers Seek Court Order to Stay

The Los Angeles Police Department declared a citywide tactical alert early Monday, as officers continued to try to peacefully remove Occupy Los Angeles protesters from City Hall property.

November 27, 2011

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What is Going on In San Francisco?

Sadly, it would appear that American law enforcement has lost much of its willingness to take the initiative and restore the peace. We've come a long way from the days when the Texas Rangers boasted they only needed one Ranger to end one riot.

July 28, 2011

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Police Arrest 66 UC Berkeley Protesters

Police arrested 66 people on trespassing charges today at UC Berkeley. Most of the arrests were of protesters who've been inside Wheeler Hall this week holding a teach-in and other "open university" activities.

December 10, 2009

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St. Louis Police Apologize for 2003 Raids

The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners apologized and agreed to pay damages to four people who were among those detained or searched because they intended to protest genetically modified crops at the forum.

August 24, 2009

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60 Oakland Radicals March in Support of Cop Killer

The protest was organized by the Oakland branch of the Uhuru Movement, whose flyers for the march declared, "Stop Police Terror." The marchers were supporting Lovell Mixon, who was killed after he shot three Oakland sergeants during an ambush.

March 25, 2009

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Protestors Link Oakland Ambush to BART Shooting

By late afternoon Saturday, a group of about 50 people lined 73rd Avenue, a block from where Dunakin and Hege were shot.

March 22, 2009

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Bystanders Taunt Police at Scene of Oakland Cop Murders

People lingered at the scene of the first shootings. About 20 bystanders taunted police. Tension between police and the community has risen steadily since the fatal shooting of unarmed 22-year-old Oscar Grant by a transit police officer at an Oakland train station on Jan. 1.

March 21, 2009