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Charges Dropped for 227 RNC Protesters

HeadlineOct 07, 2004

In New York, District Attorney Robert Morgenthau yesterday dropped charges for all 227 people arrested on August 31 during a Republican National Convention protest organized by the War Resisters League. The protesters were attempting to peacefully walk from Ground Zero to Madison Square Garden, the site of the convention. But before the demonstrators walked more than a few blocks, police corralled them with orange netting and arrested everyone inside the netting. Some of the demonstrators were then detained for over 48 hours. The New York Civil Liberties Union Attorney Christopher Dunn said “During the Republican National Convention, the NYPD used mass-arrest tactics to arrest hundreds of demonstrators and bystanders who were doing nothing illegal. The district attorney’s action today should send a strong signal to the NYPD that it must stop using these tactics.”

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