08/31/05 MANHATTAN: REPUBLICAN CONVENTION ARRESTS TO BE INVESTIGATED
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MANHATTAN: REPUBLICAN CONVENTION ARRESTS TO BE INVESTIGATED The Justice
Department will investigate claims that the police violated citizens'
civil rights in making arrests during the Republican National
Convention last year. Responding to a request from the ranking
Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman John
Conyers Jr., the Justice Department said in June that it would
investigate his allegation that the police engaged in a pattern of
unconstitutional conduct. The police arrested 1,806 people during the
convention, and in most cases the charges were dismissed or the
defendants acquitted. Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief
spokesman, said lawful dissent had been accommodated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/nyregion/24mbrfs.html
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