Young Republican still not arrested, but video used to arrest demonstrator

[funky_bug]

GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"...police benefited from the work of an independent videographer this week after he filmed a demonstrator beating and stomping a plainclothes officer. The footage was turned over to investigators, who used it to produce a wanted poster of the missing assailant.
The 19-year-old suspect was spotted at a Union Square demonstration the next day and arrested on assault charges."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=10&u=/ap/20040903/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_paparazzi_protests

Okay - I AGREE that the demonstrator should have been arrested, but why aren't there posters out with the face of that little bastard that kicked the "demonstrator" inside the RNC????

[FatSlob]

1. Tell me about this Republican assault.

I've not heard of it.

[funky_bug]

5. "Young Republican" kicked a * demonstrator on camera

A few demonstrators made it inside the RNC and disrupted a speech. This kid grabs a sign out of girls hand, then grabs her arm. After he pulls her to the floor, he kicks her several times before secret service intervenes. Protestors are dragged away, but the kid goes back to his seat, where the reporter confronts him on camera about the incident. He sits with a blank look on his face for several seconds... again, all on camera.

So if he's on camera, where are the posters???????

[FatSlob]

8. I just found the info in another thread.

The guy should be charged with battery.

[Bozita]

9. WABC video -- link

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/gopcon/wabc_090204_protestshowdown.html

[rkc3]

2. Little bastard was expressing his 1st Amendment Rights - nothing to see.

move on.

[BurtWorm]

3. They arrested an assaulted person on assault charges?!

:wtf:

[funky_bug]

7. No no...

Two different people... the one in the article was a protestor outside the convention that kicked a plain-clothed officer. My point is, both assaults were caught on camera, but apparantly police only actively pursued the one who kicked the cop, NOT the one who kicked a woman repeatedly INSIDE the convention hall.

[Minimus]

4. I know. Watching that video of the MONSTER kid pissed me off!

[Bozita]

6. Selective enforcement

The delegate was likely engaged in self-defense.

[funky_bug]

10. Oh yes, how silly of me...

The protestor arrested was found in the GREAT BIG CITY of NY, which is of course much easier than locating a kid inside the Garden who had returned to his seat... not to mention the secret service person who stepped in between them... boy he must have thought it impossible to grab up someone standing right BEHIND him.