The 53 arrests MSNBC is reporting

[mandyky]

are the bicycle people - I think there were 40 some. Liz Winstead reported on this on AAR earlier...

[whistle]

1. ???any details, reasons given????

[SodoffBush]

2. Perhaps for riding on the wrong side of the street?

I can't imagine why NY police would want to arrest a bunch of bicyclists.

[jean]

6. the bike arrests on Fri? All I heard was they were told to ride two

abreast and were arrested if they broke that 'rule.' Who knows for sure, though.

[mandyky]

4. My guess is

The cyclists "blocked traffic" yesterday so the police don't like cyclers. Also I noticed a One Way Street sign - and the march was going against the sign. Bicycles are supposed follow vehicular law, so maybe it was a traffic law excuse.

[2Design]

8. here is a link to one story.......

you do know mainstream news basically did not cover the march...C-Span di....so all the regular news wants to report is trouble

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040829/ap_on_re_us/cvn_convention_protests

and make that the news instead of the peaceful protest

[napi21]

3. I didn't get that impression. It looked like this was today at the march.

They even said all was a peacful march except for some arrests. They showed a whot of the police, but I still have no idea what the arrests were for.

[Nordic]

5. I read that my future ex-wife, Rosario Dawson, got arrested

DAMN!

[Shoeempress]

7. Bloomberg reporting 59 arrests. It's gonna be a long week in NYC

Here's the link:
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aThv8vqWQeOs&refer=top_world_news