PUNKS, PROTESTS & THE NYPD
Wed Sep 1, 2:32 AM ET
Add Op/Ed - New York Post
As the GOP wrapped up Day Two of its confab last night, the
hate-and-anarchy crowd began to get uppity, with protesters resisting
and assualting cops.
Hundreds were arrested.
As well they have should been.
As of early last night, it was unclear where all this would lead. But
even by Monday, things had already gotten bloody. A mob of lowlifes
pummeled one cop at the end of a protest by the so-called Poor People's
Economic Human Rights Campaign - a protest that, inexplicably, was
allowed to take place despite a lack of proper permits.
The officer, who was hospitalized with head wounds, was one of a group
of scooter cops who went to the rescue of a female colleague who'd been
surrounded by hooligans on West 30th Street.
The mob threw metal barricades at the cops, knocked one off his bike,
then proceeded to punch and kick him.
But here's the most telling twist: Video of the incident showed that
someone in a neon-green painter's cap was standing next to the
assailant - who had not yet been caught - and had a "clear view of the
incident," according to cops.
Maybe you've noticed folks wearing caps like that: They're
self-proclaimed "legal observers" from the far-left National Lawyers
Guild, and they say their job is to protect anti-Republican protesters
from alleged police brutality.
When it comes to protecting the cops from the protesters' brutality,
though, it seems they couldn't care less.
Indeed, the "legal observer" has yet to come forward. (No surprise
there.)
And this was just one incident in a growing trend of ugly violence and
confrontation by hostile protesters who have flocked to the GOP's big
event.
Indeed, all over town, reports were received of GOP delegates being
harassed and verbally abused - at their hotels and at various events -
by protesters.
And, again, hundreds were rounded up by cops yesterday.
Certainly, a large heaping of credit is due to one jurist who refused
to turn a blind eye to the lawlessness: Manhattan Criminal Court Judge
Patricia Nunez set hefty bail for the cretin who torched a papier-mach
dragon outside Madison Square Garden Sunday, injuring a cop who may
have suffered nerve damage.
Judge Nunez set bail at a $200,000 bond or $100,000 cash for Yusuke
Banno, charged with inciting a riot, resisting arrest and assaulting a
police officer - despite obscene taunts from the defendant's colleagues
in the courtroom.
Not only that, but the judge also refused to arraign three other
protesters arrested with Banno who wouldn't give cops their names.
"Send them back downstairs" to the holding cells, said Judge Nunez.
"I'll see you later this week."
Three cheers for that. And for all those other law-enforcers working so
hard to keep the convention safe.
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