Judge strikes down Lauderdale law, gives protesters some leeway (OAS :)

[wakeme2008]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11808753.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Posted on Fri, Jun. 03, 2005


Judge strikes down Lauderdale law, gives protesters some leeway

By Amy Sherman
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A federal judge on Thursday struck down an ordinance the city of Fort Lauderdale passed last month to limit what objects people could bring to protests.

The ordinance was passed on the eve of the Organization of American States conference which begins Sunday and continues through Tuesday. City officials said they wanted to prohibit demonstrators from carrying potentially violent objects such as thick wooden sticks, bicycle locks and water balloons.

..more at link...

[antigone382]

1. Water balloons are potentially dangerous?

As opposed to tazers and pepper spray cannons? :shrug:

[LiberalVoice]

2. potentially violent objects?

Maybe the water balloons are filled with battery acid :shrug:

[Robbien]

3. I see that the city still gets to put protesters in a Free Speech Zone

From what I read, the Free Speech Zone is one mile away from the OAS convention. What a crock.

[damntexdem]

4. Why did they leave out nerf balls?

And big pieces of cardboard?