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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Charles Village Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Charles Village Chat <chat@charlesvillage.info> 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 ============ 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 Joe Adams cell: 410-812-1447 __._,_.___ All postings to the SAVE Our Votes Core list are confidential and may not be shared off-list without the explicit permission of all authors of the posting. Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/chat@charlesvillage.info/
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