janelane wrote:

Dagmar wrote:
This is just insane. The cops arrested Amy Goodman.

From Wikipedia (and a CNN story not specifically about Amy):

She, along with the majority of those detained during the RNC, were held on charges of "probable cause for riot".[11] Sources have criticized the arrest as unlawful and a violation of the freedom of the press.[12]

It's a bullshit charge, but by this point all that crazy anarchist stuff may have been going down and they were taking EVERYONE to jail.

-janelane

It doesn't matter. The response to "anarchy" in protests is bullshit. They have just as much right to spoof the protest as a "legitimate" protester has to be there. Corralling these people up in cages and hauling them off when 98% of them don't represent a danger much less a nuisance is what's criminal.

I've signed the petition.

RE: Amy Goodman *ARRESTED*