Fw: NYC MAYDAY 2K

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 10 08:38:27 PST 1999


Max Sawicky wrote:


>I don't mean for a second there should be no demo's
>in NYC. But for one similar to Seattle that can be used
>to justify police violence, we'd do well to have some
>serious forces on our side.

The NYPD doesn't need an excuse to get violent. Also, New York has about 38,000 cops; Seattle, 1,200. To get a similar demonstrator/cop ratio in NYC would require 1,266,667 protesting bodies (extrapolating from the 40,000 Seattle estimate).

Doug



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