A number of independent web sites have reported the incident, DougR, although they may just be cross-copying a fraudulent story.   I would welcome hearing this was the case, believe me! Having experienced police brutality on skimpier grounds, I doubt it is invented, though.

Brownshirts, Russians, strongarmers for Il Duce, and other obsessive paranoids have pulled this kind of crap for decades, but when it happens in our streets, it gets awfully reminiscent of the heavy handed Hessian antics of one George of Hanover. Remember him? I think he belonged to your party.


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