"Josie & The Pussycats" actress busted for face-covering bandana at RNC

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14831,00.html

(Aug 30, 2004, 12:10 PM PT) Talk about the fashion police: Rosario Dawson was arrested in New York Sunday for the crime of wearing a black bandana over her face while filming a scene from an upcoming movie.

The problem was that Dawson was covering her face against the wrong backdrop--namely in front of a massive protest at the kickoff of the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden.

Laws in effect this week in New York prohibit protestors from covering their faces to hide their identities. Though Dawson was not actually involved in the anti-Bush protest, she was close enough to the action to be hauled into custody by the men in blue.

Dawson, 25, was shooting a scene from the film This Revolution, which costars Mos Def and focuses on a band of anarchists, when she and another, unidentified bandana-wearing thesp were booked. The crew had planned to use the army of protestors in the background as free extras in the movie.

[LibLabUK]

1. Did they ban muslim women from NYC for the duration? n/t

[neuvocat]

2. How convenient.

The problem is that no mention of any bandana was made at the time of the arrest.