PAPERS PLEASE!

[Earth_First]

OccupyRochester was roused out of a mid-winter slumber last night at 2:30 a.m. to the beckoning of a dozen law enforcement officers demanding indentification from everyone present; or face arrest.

The legal team and City of Rochester liasons are meeting this morning to discuss this matter

We're being told that this will be a nightly occurance now [as part of some larger plan...?]

We've been in Occupied Washington Square Park since October 28, 2011 without this intrusion, so why all of a sudden now...

WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED!

[newfie11]

1. so now we are supposed to carry ID at all times

This is crazy!

[pampango]

3. Don't folks in Arizona, South Carolina and Alabama have to do this already?

(Or maybe it's just Hispanics in those states.)

Kind of shows how idiotic those state immigration laws are.

Sure helps authorities who want to bust on OWS or other legitimate protesters. They can just say they are checking for illegal immigrants and keep requesting ID's from everyone.

[Earth_First]

2. I'm fairly certian that the Identify Law

Only pertains to individuals who law enforcement believe is suspected, likely or in progress of a crime...

So was everyone at OWSP planning on comitting a crime, while they slept? ...thought crimes while they dreamed?

[hobbit709]

4. If they thought they could get away with it, thinking in nonapproved patterns would be a crime.