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police need to be brought under control.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV></DIV>POLICE THUGGERY<BR>============<BR><BR>
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<TD class=judulpost>Baltimore election-night story on <A
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href="http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com">http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com</A><BR><BR>-
Joe <BR><BR><BR><A title="permanent link"
href="http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-party-goers-tasered-thrown-in.html"
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<TD class=isipost>In Baltimore, a Democratic
city.<BR><BR>MCM<BR><BR>Mark --<BR><BR>I have to be brief because I've
been awake now for almost 35 hours. <BR>I was rounded up along with a
dozen or so other people last night at <BR>an impromptu Obama
celebration in Baltimore and jailed. My crime? <BR>Photographing the
Baltimore cops as they loaded people into a paddy <BR>wagon. The crowd
was very well-behaved -- mostly Hopkins students <BR>overjoyed with the
Obama victory. A phalanx of cops moved in and <BR>started arbitrarily
arresting people. They tased an undergraduate <BR>for trying to get back
into his building -- after asking him to go <BR>inside. It was insane. I
started taking photos with my cell phone as <BR>they lined up cuffed
college kids, professors, etc. and a cop <BR>approached me. "I'm a
journalist," I said (I freelance for Baltimore <BR>City Paper) and he
knocked the phone out of my hand onto the street. <BR>"Write a nice long
st! ory about this," he said, spun me around, and he <BR>and another cop
cuffed me with flexi-cuffs and loaded me into the <BR>police
van.<BR><BR>This was 2am last night (Tuesday). I served as an election
judge all <BR>day, and the last thing I expected was to spend the night
in <BR>Baltimore City lockup. Unreal.<BR><BR>The dangerous thugs the
police decided to jail included me (an <BR>election judge, writer, and
employee of the Bloomberg School of <BR>Public Health), TWO professors
of anthropology at Hopkins, a <BR>Baltimore City school teacher, and a
variety of students. It was one <BR>student's birthday. The student who
was tasered had bruises on his <BR>wrists from the cuffs and a bruised
eye. Truly a dangerous group of <BR>criminals.<BR><BR>We were released
this morning -- no charges were brought against us. <BR>We're getting
together as a group to see what recourse we have. One <BR>of the
anthropology profs, Aaron Goodfellow, has contacted the ACLU <BR>and I'm
going t! o follow-up. There were lots of students with cell <BR>phones,
videocams, and cameras, so I'm hoping some of this was <BR>caught on
tape.<BR><BR>City Paper has a very brief clip on its site:<BR><BR><A
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href="http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16987">http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=16987</A><BR><BR>Thanks,
Mark. I thought you and your readers should know about
this.<BR><BR>Michael Hughes </TD></TR>
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