[Chat] Baltimore election-night story in the media

[Kevin Zeese]

I realize they have a tough job, but Baltimore police need to be brought
under control.
 
KZ


POLICE THUGGERY
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Baltimore election-night story on  http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com

-    Joe 


Obama party-goers tasered, thrown in jail
<http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-party-goers-tasered-thr
own-in.html> 	
In Baltimore, a Democratic city.

MCM

Mark --

I have to be brief because I've been awake now for almost 35 hours. 
I was rounded up along with a dozen or so other people last night at 
an impromptu Obama celebration in Baltimore and jailed. My crime? 
Photographing the Baltimore cops as they loaded people into a paddy 
wagon. The crowd was very well-behaved -- mostly Hopkins students 
overjoyed with the Obama victory. A phalanx of cops moved in and 
started arbitrarily arresting people. They tased an undergraduate 
for trying to get back into his building -- after asking him to go 
inside. It was insane. I started taking photos with my cell phone as 
they lined up cuffed college kids, professors, etc. and a cop 
approached me. "I'm a journalist," I said (I freelance for Baltimore 
City Paper) and he knocked the phone out of my hand onto the street. 
"Write a nice long st! ory about this," he said, spun me around, and he 
and another cop cuffed me with flexi-cuffs and loaded me into the 
police van.

This was 2am last night (Tuesday). I served as an election judge all 
day, and the last thing I expected was to spend the night in 
Baltimore City lockup. Unreal.

The dangerous thugs the police decided to jail included me (an 
election judge, writer, and employee of the Bloomberg School of 
Public Health), TWO professors of anthropology at Hopkins, a 
Baltimore City school teacher, and a variety of students. It was one 
student's birthday. The student who was tasered had bruises on his 
wrists from the cuffs and a bruised eye. Truly a dangerous group of 
criminals.

We were released this morning -- no charges were brought against us. 
We're getting together as a group to see what recourse we have. One 
of the anthropology profs, Aaron Goodfellow, has contacted the ACLU 
and I'm going t! o follow-up. There were lots of students with cell 
phones, videocams, and cameras, so I'm hoping some of this was 
caught on tape.

City Paper has a very brief clip on its site:

http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16987

Thanks, Mark. I thought you and your readers should know about this.

Michael Hughes 	

	


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