A half dozen armed cops and a “commonwealth’s attorney” barged into the student newspaper office at James Madison University in Virginia recently and confiscated 600 pictures the newspaper had taken of a “melee” off campus where the cops used tear gas and other means of force and coercion to end what they call a “riot.”
The cops/bureaucrat say they only wanted the pictures to identify people in them who might be a danger to the community. They were only serving and protecting, they say. An alternative hypothesis would be that some of the pictures might have incriminated the police for the kind of police brutality that occurred not too long ago at the University of Maryland where a student celebrating a basketball victory by skipping down a sidewalk was beaten senseless by heavily armed cops on horseback.
1:12 pm on April 20, 2010
