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Appeals Court Finds NYPD Justified in Arrests At RNC

By MARK TOOR
Posted 8/6/12

A Federal appeals court Aug. 3 upheld the city’s arrest of two of the hundreds of protesters detained during the 2004 Republican National Convention, endorsing a trial court’s decision that the city’s policy on demonstrations conformed with the First Amendment and that an alternative area it set up for demonstrators two blocks away was sufficient for their needs.

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