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The Incident at Pershing Park

By AAN Staff
january 22, 2003  09:47 am
The Incident at Pershing Park
Hundreds of people wandered into D.C.'s Pershing Park on the morning of Sept. 27 — activists looking for a protest, nurses in town for a conference, lawyers headed to work, and a cyclist training for a race. And there was District of Columbia Police Chief Charles Ramsey with his troops, ready to arrest them all. Washington City Paper's Jason Cherkis looks at the mass arrests during a peaceful protest and their aftermath. "As video footage and first-person accounts show, the park events constitute one of the most serious collective violations of civil rights in this city since the Vietnam War era," he writes.
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