NYPD or NKVD?

[marmar]

via truthdig:



NYPD May Be Using Warrant Squads to Monitor Protesters
Posted on May 4, 2012


OWS communications coordinator Shawn Carrié was walking home at 9 p.m. on May Day when nine plainclothes police officers approached him, took his belongings, placed him in handcuffs and put him in a van. He was questioned about his involvement in Occupy Wall Street and then spent the next 13 hours in jail.

Ailsa Chang of WNYC reports that Carrié was picked up on two open bench warrants from 2007 pertaining to a public urination incident. But it turned out those warrants belonged to another Shawn Carrié. The name is not his given one, but an alias he uses in marches.

The NYPD may be using the legal tactic of picking up Occupiers on old warrants to question them about their political activities. Officers went to the homes of a number of people involved in Occupy Wall Street early in the morning on May Day. In each incident, a warrant for an open container or some other long-standing violation belonging to a protester or roommate was apparently used as a pretext for questioning.

According to court officials, more than 1 million of these types of warrants currently exist in New York City. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/nypd_using_warrant_squads_to_monitor_protesters_20120504/

[freshwest]

1. If these warrants were in the system for years, did the people know it? Why were these people or

these casrd not adjudicated years before an unrelated event coming up?

Occupy's legal team or the ACLU needs to find a way to inspect a data base which contains the potential of arresting a million people for unrelated matters.

What's wrong with NYC? Or has there always been such overreaching there?

[msongs]

2. from the Oval Office down, our government has declared was on us. nt