On Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:57:27 -0500 (CDT) Clore Daniel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Seattle police violated rights, report says > >An ACLU assessment of last fall's WTO meeting faults >the city's preparations > >Thursday, July 6, 2000 > >From The Associated Press > >SEATTLE -- City police should have known enough to keep >an open passage for World Trade Organization delegates >during protests last fall, an American Civil Liberties >Union report concludes. > >Instead, according to "Out of Control," a 71-page report >prepared for formal release Wednesday, bungling resulted in >violation of the First Amendment rights of delegates and >protesters. > >Despite months of warnings from the Seattle Fire >Department, law enforcement agencies and protest >organizers, demonstrations and disorders overwhelmed >police at the outset of the meetings at the end of >November. > >"Realizing it had lost control of the situation, the city >then overreacted," the report said. > >The report, based largely on anonymous accounts from >more than 500 people who completed a form on the >ACLU's Web site, is one of a number of studies of the >disorders that marred the international gathering held Nov. >30-Dec. 3. > >Last week, the first of three City Council citizen panels >examining various aspects of the issue criticized Mayor >Paul Schell and council members for failing to ask more >questions before bidding to host the gathering. > >This week Schell is expected to release the second half of >a report by a law enforcement consultant he hired to >assess the city's response, and the National Lawyers >Guild also is expected to issue a report on civil rights >complaints. > >Police and Schell administration officials would not >comment on the ACLU report Tuesday. Ed Joiner, former >assistant police chief, has admitted he underestimated the >number of protesters willing to block the streets and thus >left the area without enough officers to establish >clear-passage corridors. > >The study accused police of violating the free-speech rights >of protesters by using tear gas, pepper spray and rubber >bullets to try to clear the streets and by establishing a >25-block no-protest zone in the downtown area. > >"The no-protest zone was clearly unrelated to any real >security problem," asserted Kathleen Taylor, executive >director of the ACLU's state chapter. "That's obvious >because all you had to do was dress up nice to get >through it." > >At the same time, by failing to create "corridors or security >perimeters" for passage to the opening meeting, "city >officials did not protect conference delegates' right to >assemble," the report said. > >"If the police had prepared properly before the >demonstrators converged on Seattle, they could have found >a middle ground between heavy-handedness and naively >hoping for the best," the report concluded. > >-- >--------------------------------------------------- >Dan Clore > >The Website of Lord We˙rdgliffe: >http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/index.html >The Dan Clore Necronomicon Page: >http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/necpage.htm > >"Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas >zhiba. All Nyug bosom. 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