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Frustrated, protesters yanked at the barriers from both sides as police tried to keep them in place, shouting for everyone to back away. Just then, a plainclothes officer wearing a Yankees jersey drove a scooter through a small gap in the pens into the crowd. He fell from his scooter on his back, and a protester, leaping forward, yelled, "Get him!" He was kicked several times in the head and knocked unconscious as police in riot gear descended on the crowd, shoving everyone onto the side streets.
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It's not always so uneventful, as was the case this afternoon, when the NYPD issued a release looking for "[a] woman wearing the green cap of the National Lawyers Guild" who had witnessed the assault of a police officer at 8th Avenue and 29th Street last night. Like me, the NLG also is interested in how many protesters have been arrested; unlike me, they don't think the NYPD always does such good job. Now, however, the group, which gives legal support to the protesters, is being asked to help the cops, which poses a bit of an ethical conundrum. Since Friday, about 400 "legal observers" have tagged along at the protests to provide legal advice for the hundreds who planned to get arrested. According to my e.mail from the NYPD, one of the NLG members may be able to identify the attacker. It's not 100 percent sure she was NLG, because anyone who completes the NLG Observer Training course gets the hat, and presumably those hats could be worn by anyone who picks them up. No matter, really. According to the NLG spokesperson, Shonna Carter, the observers don't have any obligation to "report incidents against the police."
Just a quick question: What is wrong with people today?
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