This was originally an ad for the Human Clock site, but I thought it was a great photo too.
Finally heard from Anne about her poor daughter. Don't quite know all the details of how long she was held, but it was obviously way too damn long to be legal. When the cops flaut the law, what hope is there for human justice? Zip. Here's Anne:
So Sorry I did not get back to you. I am still wasted and tending to forget what day it is. Or who has been told what in this saga. YES. WE finally got a call from her late morning our time. She was picked up by the Angels waiting outside the jail for released hostages and taken to a local church where she was fed and given a chance to clean up and sleep. Then they helped her get her stuff back from the police lockup and she went straight to a bus station and bought a ticket to Chicago (and her boyfriend). It's sat now and we finally got a call from her about 8 PM our time. 11 pm NYC time and 6 pm Chicago time (GOD this getts confusing). (It was a 20 hour Bus ride from NYC to Chicago.) **SHUDDER** And there i suspect she collapsed into the arms of her sweetie. Like him, Nice kid, part of a weird Cosmic plot. We suspect.
Mayor Mike is on the radio right now saying something like "the few protestors who chose to break the law were arrested, processed expeditiously, and let go." What world is he living in?
I think it's also interesting that Anne uses the word "hostages" to refer to the protestors held for so long (how coincidental is it that their incarceration lasted until long after Bush left town?). This was not a popular convention, by any means and I think it was a huge mistake for it to be held here. When was the last time even the cops admitted that opposition managed to mobilize a half-million people in one place with only 200 arrests for disorderly conduct (mostly) and so much virulent opposition that the cops (no doubt under orders from Mayor Mike) had to resort to rounding people, including bystanders, up in nets?
From the other descriptions I've read at IndyMedia and elsewhere, this must have been about what it was like at Pier 57. Thanks to Pete Abrams for his cleverness.
(In the interests of full disclosure, Pier 57 was a site that the company I work for did environmental evaluations of. I believe it's now part of planned Hudson River Park renovations, unless the rumors about the NYPD keeping it as a lock-up are true.)
All right, there's the end of the story. Now I'm off to paint my living room.
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