The news cycle

[nancylebov]

Have you been seeing anything in the mainstream media about the pre-emptive arrest of peaceful protest groups?

I've been seeing it all over the parts of the web where I hang out, and then I heard a sketchy little mention on WHYY (my local NPR station) which made it sound as though the police had done something routine and reasonable.

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[madfilkentist]

It's not on the front pages, but it is there if you dig. I linked to one example from my post this weekend. CNN buried the story but did run it.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

MSM has reports of windows being broken by folks who'd been in the protest group. There's blog reports of attacks on buses (such as dropping a bag of concrete from an overpass). Best criticism I've seen of the cops is by joelrosenberg.

[atomicat.livejournal.com]

I think the most egregious example was the storming, and I'll call it that since they entered via the attic of the space next door, no warrant, of the I-witness group.
http://iwitnessvideo.info/

Great! Can't even have a Chai tea and muffin with your friends anymore.

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Data point from Europe: not on BBC, but on Al-Jazeera - where Amy Goodman was even name-checked as one of the arrested. The focus was more on the demonstration but there was a mention of pre-emptive arrests.

Crazy(and convinced that's the only sane response in this world)Soph

[beatnikbetty.livejournal.com]

DemocracyNow is giving the real story. Amy Goodman and her producers at the RNC were even arrested and charged.