THE 23-HOUR ORDEAL OF TWO REPORTERS
Editor's Note: Two Diamondback reporters covering the IMF-World Bank protests were arrested Friday morning and manacled for 23 hours. Surrounded by hundreds of protesters in Pershing Park, Washington Metropolitan Police circled and arrested the entire group. Jason Flanagan and Debra Kahn were there as impartial observers, and despite the newspaper's efforts to release them, they were stripped of all their possessions - even their shoelaces. What follows is a first-person account of their arrest and detention.
By Jason Flanagan and Debra Kahn
WASHINGTON - Sept. 27 to 28
When you think of protesters, what comes to mind? Grungy, idealistic white college kids with multiple piercings complaining about complexities that don't directly affect them.
So when you hear about protesters being arrested and having their civil rights violated, you may think that they're exaggerating or that they must have provoked the police in some way. Surely law enforcers couldn't have such disregard for citizens' civil rights, you think.
Think again.
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