NYPD arrests guy for doing what they tell him to

This from AmericaBlog - Please follow link to original (by the way, N.Y.C. is my home town -- seeing the NYPD act this way really upsets me. I remember a lot of N.Y. cops as being really mellow -- now, it's back to the bad old days.)
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A protester wants to walk down the sidewalk, the cops tell him no. He say, there are pedestrians walking down the sidewalk, why can't I just walk down the sidewalk too. The cop appears to finally tell him it's ok, so he does it, and they jump him.

And New York City's reputation gets that much creepier.