The protests in New York during the Republican convention flopped, despite the impressive turnout at Sunday’s mass perambulation
* The protests in New York during the Republican convention flopped, despite the impressive turnout at Sunday’s mass perambulation. In their tolerant and open-minded way, organizers had promised to shut down the convention, to send the delegates home, to cause huge disruptions, and to occupy Central Park.
None of these events transpired. The thousands of journalists reporting from New York hardly bothered, after Sunday’s march, to cover the Left’s antics, or their “street theater,” or their “die-ins.” That stuff is so Battle of Seattle 1999. Had the New York Police Department not adopted preemptive tactics to arrest suspected troublemakers en masse, deployed officers on nimble scooters and bikes, and kept anarchists off the streets by penning them well away from the convention–all the while keeping a sense of humor and giving directions to confused delegates from outta town–the city would have looked more like Fort Apache, The Bronx than Miracle on 34th Street. Kudos to the NYPD.