"In 1992 thousands of people were protesting on the Brooklyn Bridge and not arrested..."

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http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/27/nyregion/rally-puts-police-under-new-scrutiny.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

Rally Puts Police Under New Scrutiny
By CATHERINE S. MANEGOLD
Published: September 27, 1992

On Wednesday, Sept. 16, after months of growing tension between Mayor David N. Dinkins and New York City's police, more than 10,000 off-duty officers and their supporters gathered outside City Hall to protest the Dinkins administration's handling of a list of police issues. The demonstration began calmly enough, with a series of predictable chants, songs and demands.

Then something went badly awry.

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.

The protest would have been noteworthy even if it had been any rally gone a bit too wild. But the protesters were the police.

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Tweet from today:

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Arrested eye-witness confirms: "We did not want to block the bridge. The police shut it down." #99Percent

[frazzled]

1. Police almost never arrest themselves

Funny that.

[pnorman]

2. Great find!

THANKS!

[progressoid]

3. k/r

[PETRUS]

4. Just beautiful. nt

[Kurovski]

5. Them that gots shall get.

Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible said and it still is news.

(It goes for power as well as dough)