[Chat] Baltimore election-night story in the media

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 Here are links to the City Paper and Sun stories on this.? I happened to be driving by and witnessed the events.? The actions taken by the police struck me as completely unnecessary and a terrible overreaction.? 

-Matthew

http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16991

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-md.arrests06nov06,0,7307082.story


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Zeese <kzeese at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 8:08 am
Subject: [Chat] Baltimore election-night story in the media














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 
    


    

      
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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