Salon.com > first ammendment http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 13:12:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 All policing, no protest around the inauguration http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/all_policing_no_protest_around_the_inauguration/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/16/all_policing_no_protest_around_the_inauguration/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:38:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13173230 In recent years I've regularly noted the unabashed militarization of protest policing. Building on a system of summit security established at the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) meeting in Miami, the "Miami Model" of militarized, weaponized policing has crystallized into standard procedure for gatherings designated National Special Security Events (NSSE).

Ahead of the presidential inauguration in Washington Monday, an NSSE that will draw 3,000 law enforcement officers and some 13,000 military troops to the area, the National Lawyers Guild has released  a report based on last year's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., and Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., highlighting First and Fourth Amendment violations imported with this sort of event policing. The report notes:

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