RE: Police abuses in DC
>From: OCONNELL at cua.edu
>To: escalante at redshift.com
>CC: kyzylkhan at netzero.net, kmc_10009 at yahoo.com,
>coconnell at conservationfund.org, myfern at umich.edu, 71moran at cua.edu,
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>Subject: Police close Kinko's to prevent distribution of materials for A16
>Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:53:05 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Police curb free speech - again
>by Troy Skeels -IMC 9:29pm Sat Apr 15 '00
>troys at eskimo.com
>
>Local print shops closing under police pressure
>
>As we are attempting to go to press with the "Blind Spot," IMC's print
>publication due to hit the streets tomorrow, we are confronting a serious
>technical difficulty; Citing "riot activity" the Kinkos print shops in
>the area are either closed already or thinking about i.
>
>A more accurate descripion might be, closed due to police pressure.
>
>I learned about this turn of events this afternoon as I and some people I
>was trading literature with were asked to leave a Kinkos near the White
>House. The employee at the Kinkos we were at was poite as he asked us to
>leave, but explained that our presence was putting his shop in danger of
>being closed.
>
>Continuing our discussion on the sidewalk, I learned that other Kinkos
>had already been closed at police direction.
>
>Philip, from Oberlin College, Ohio, sporting a box of freshly printed
>pamphlets told me that he had left one Kinkos (24th and K street) that
>closed after police came in and harrassed people printing up
>pro-demonstration, or simply anti-IMF literature. There was of course, no
>riot activity in sight.
>
>At least three Kinkos have already closed. It remains unclear how long
>the other popular "24 hour" printing outlets will remain open.
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