In 1992, hundreds protested on the Brooklyn Bridge. In the traffic lanes.

[Coexist]

Arrests = 0. That crowd smashed beer bottles in the streets. This crowd chanted. What was the difference?

The New YorK Times reported:

A handful of people, then hundreds, then thousands, broke through police barricades and surged onto City Hall's steps. From there, the protest degenerated into a beer-swilling, traffic-snarling, epithet-hurling melee that stretched from the Brooklyn Bridge to Murray Street, where several politicians helped stoke the emotional fires.

....

Another contingent of 1,000 to 4,000 had another idea. They veered east, toward the Brooklyn Bridge. By 11:50, bridge traffic was blocked in both directions and the crowd was turning ugly. One woman who emerged from her car to shout at the protesters that her infant was suffering in the heat was shouted down by protesters who jeered, "Hey, why don't you call a cop."

They were the Police. That is the difference.

[ixion]

1. k/r

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Why is this being unrecced?

I guess some Democrats are very nervous about an angry 99%

[progressoid]

8. Those unreccers aren't Democrats. n/t

[Earth_First]

3. Do as we SAY. Not as WE do. n/t

[hootinholler]

4. Who was there to egg them on?

*The protest had a strong political cast. Rudolph W. Giuliani, a likely candidate for Mayor in 1993, was present throughout the demonstration and led the crowd in a rousing condemnation of Mayor Dinkins's treatment of police issues. It was his second appearance at a police gathering in several weeks. Earlier, Mr. Giuliani attended a Patrolmen's Benevolent Association convention in the Catskills. At the City Hall demonstration, at least one Giuliani supporter circulated through the crowd handing out voter registration cards, and many protesters wore paraphernalia with a decidedly political slant: new white T-shirts bearing the words "Dinkins must go" and buttons printed: "Fight Crime. Dump Dinkins."

[47of74]

5. Or as I like to call him, Benito Giuliani

[Coexist]

6. I know.

the entire article surprised me.

[Quantess]

7. K & R

[cui bono]

9. Thank you for this info. n/t

[Coexist]

11. Happy to share!

[Leopolds Ghost]

10. In-teres-ting.

[stevenleser]

12. Wow. Just wow. I mean, wow.

Not too much makes me fumble for words. This ironic comparison did it. Wow.

[firehorse]

13. thanks for posting - very interesting.