Miami's Robo-Cop model of suppression

[G_j]

ARRESTING THE FUTURE
Tom Hayden, AlterNet

Even as FTAA protestors and trade ministers poured out of town in droves, the city's Robo-Cops continued to demonstrate the 'Miami model' of suppression -- with pepper spray, rubber bullets and drawn weapons.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17246

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[DUreader]

1. good article

[G_j]

2. another article

Jim Defede, He Respected the Badge, But `Not in Miami´

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/112403I.shtml

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"They were pointing their guns at us," he continued. "I guess they had those rubber pellets in them, but I didn't know, I was just incredibly frightened. Some of the people with us got down on their knees, and as I got down on my knees, I was briskly pushed to the ground. It felt like I had a foot to my back knocking me down. Everyone in our group was knocked to the ground and handcuffed. I had my hands cuffed behind my back for 7 ½ hours."

     Killmon said he was charged with disorderly conduct.

     "I still don't know what it was I did," he said Saturday.

     After spending the night in jail, he said a judge dismissed the charges against him.
    
"Miami was a police state," he said.
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(Bentley Killmon is 71)
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...and an earlier report from Tom Hayden,

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17234

Miami Vice
By Tom Hayden, AlterNet
November 20, 2003
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[tom_paine]

3. Jyst the tiniest taste of the future of Imperial Amerika

These are, almost without doubt, the Good Old Days.

We, even now, enjoy a level of freedom that our great-grandchildren will never know.

[G_j]

4. thats why everybody

needs to pay attention...IMHO

[G_j]

5. kick

[Stone_Spirits]

6. this needs a kick!

[G_j]

7. yep,it does

:kick: