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American politics Democracy in America Wall Street protests This is what ineffective action looks like

Oct 3rd 2011, 19:38 by R.M. | WASHINGTON, DC

THE video is pretty clear. A group of protesters come to a halt at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge roadway. There a cop tells them that if they continue walking, they will be arrested. The group continues walking. Within the next couple of hours hundreds of people are arrested.

We can debate the fairness of this police action. It seems if the police wanted to prevent the protesters from walking on the road they could've put up a barrier. People in the back of the procession couldn't have heard the police officer's warning; some may have willingly retreated. At the same time, the lead protesters knew they were guiding their comrades into illegal territory. As Natasha Lennard, a freelance reporter for the New York Times, reports, "The Internet was filled with pointed suggestions that officers from the New York Police Department led protesters onto the road as a trap to perform mass arrests; indeed, some video footage seems to show officers leading protesters onto the 'illegal' section of the bridge. From what I saw, however, a couple of dozen marchers made the decision to move off the sidewalk into the road at the bridge’s entrance to chants of 'off the sidewalks, into the streets.'"

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/10/wall-street-protests

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