This.
You have to wonder what the New York City Police Department is trying to hide. The department says it has documents that explain and justify its mass arrests during the 2004 Republican convention. But, it won’t release them.
Last week, for the second time in a year, a federal judge ordered the department to release the documents. The city said it would appeal, thereby reinforcing the suspicion that it knows it trampled on freedoms of speech and assembly and simply won’t admit it.
More than 1,800 people were arrested during the convention, some of them guilty of nothing more than standing on a street or sidewalk during a police sweep. Many were detained for days. The department later said that its actions were based on intelligence gathered by a special unit of undercover officers who had infiltrated dozens of protest groups, including innocuous ad-hoc outfits like the comical Billionaires for Bush.
One would think that a department with nothing to fear, save perhaps ridicule for clumsy behavior, would produce the evidence.
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