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This was in the New York Daily news yesterday, for all those planing on atending the upcoming protests in Washington DC....
By JOHN MARZULLI and ALICE McQUILLAN
Daily News Staff Writers
Some 1,000 city cops are headed to Washington next month to help guard
against major street protests expected at a meeting of the World Bank
and
International Monetary Fund.
The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association had raised concerns over
liability in
case an officer or civilian was injured.
But the NYPD said it has agreed to continue all benefits and liability
protection as if the officers were on duty in New York.
The nation's capital is bracing for more than 100,000 protesters
during the
gathering of world financial leaders Sept. 29-30.
Expecting violence that has plagued similar meetings around the
world —
particularly last month in Genoa, Italy, and in 1999 in Seattle — the
6,000-member Washington police force asked for help from other law
enforcement agencies.
"We hope we get through the two days of the meeting trouble-free, but
we
have to be prepared," said Washington police spokesman Kenneth Bryson.
New York is lending the largest contingent of officers and
supervisors,
which is being organized under the gung-ho name of Washington
Expeditionary
Force. The cops will be evenly divided into battalions, each
commanded by a
deputy inspector, and will be equipped with gas masks and large cans
of
pepper spray.
Washington will pick up the contingent's salaries, and city cops who
volunteer won't have to use vacation time.
The Washington assignment is proving popular among the New York rank
and
file. Some 800 cops and 200 supervisors will make the trip.
The D.C.-bound cops will leave the city in buses Sept. 27 and will be
housed
at the U.S. Marine barracks in Quantico, Va.
Officers from Philadelphia and other cities are also expected to join
the
temporary Washington force, Bryson said. Deadly
In Solidarity,
RC
RedCeltic, thank you for this informative piece. Hopefully, people will realize that their sheer strength can far outweigh all the gimmicks the police resort to to try subdue them. I hope they scare the pants off the fucking bureaucrats that are in D.C. I hate them so.
