New York City police held GOP convention protesters longer than bank robbers in 2004

This is pathetic, but really not too surprising given the way the Constitution has been disregarded by the GOP, and law enforcement as a whole over the past decade or so. In 2004, protesters arrested during the Republican National Convention in New York City were held up to six times longer than people arrested for charges unrelated to the convention.

The legitimacy of the arrests was challenged on civil rights grounds in lawsuits brought by the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of some of those detained.

A judge last month rejected the city's effort to keep secret most of the files and videotapes documenting the arrests, leading to their release.

Christopher Dunn, an associate legal director for the NYCLU said:

The documents "reveal that the long detentions of the thousands of protesters arrested for minor offenses at the convention were the result of deliberate policy decisions by the NYPD."

"During the convention, you got to a judge much faster if you were a bank robber than if you were charged with parading without a permit," he said.

In jail longer for protesting our law breaking President, than those accused of robbing a bank? How absurd is that!?