Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:56:10 -0800
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: FW: Fur flies in Boca when city, FAU block protesters: Groups pic ket, 




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> Subject:      Fur flies in Boca when city, FAU block protesters:
> Groups picket, claim harassment
> 
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> The following is the article that appeared in the Feb 16 issue of the
> Palm Beach Post. Please write letters to the editor; not to harass or
> anything, but the more media we can get out of this, the better! And
> if
> anyone wants to know all the mistakes made in this article, email me
> privately! Don't assume what they say is true (hopefully, I shouldn't
> have to say that)
> dan
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> 
> Fur flies in Boca when city, FAU block protesters
> Groups picket, claim harassment
> by Eliot Kleinberg
> Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
> 
>       BOCA RATON- About a dozen people from a conglomeration of
> activist groups picketed the Boca Raton Police Department Monday
> morning,
> spelling out "P-I-G" and chanting slogans such as "End the police
> state
> now."
> 
>       They were protesting what they called harassment by local police
> Friday night at a city park where the group attempted to hold a
> convention on issues including opposition to the fur industry. On
> Monday,
> two members filed an internal affairs complaint against police.
>       
>       They would have been able to meet Friday if they had submitted
> the proper paperwork, authorities said.
> 
>       Problems began when about 100 people were expected this past
> weekend for the "Total Liberation Conference" at Florida Atlantic
> University. An Internet advertisement said groups such as the American
> Indian Movement, the Animal Defense League, and Anarchist Black Cross
> Federation, would be represented.
> 
>       Organizers say FAU told them at the last minute they'd have to
> pay an "incredibly high fee" for security, a written statement by the
> group said.
> 
>       University spokeswoman Lynn Laurenti said the group wasn't told
> about the need for security, which would cost around $900, until last
> week because it didn't submit an application to use school space. She
> said the group was unable to secure off-duty police officers in time. 
> 
>       The activists said they then reserved a pavilion at Patch Reef
> Park but that Boca Raton officers came to an organizer's home Friday
> afternoon to say they were shutting down the event.
> 
>       The reason, according to Mickey Gomez, Boca Raton's director of
> parks and recreation: The group never got a permit or paid the $35
> pavilion rental fee.
> 
>       Organizers said when they came to the park Friday to break the
> news to attendees, 60 officers from Boca Raton, Delray Beach and the
> FBI
> were there. Boca Raton police records show the department sent 18
> officers. Delray Beach supervisors did not return calls. An FBI agent
> in
> Miami declined comment.
> 
>       Boca Raton Police Sgt. Mike McCutcheon said the department could
> not comment now that an internal affairs complaint had been filed.
> 
>       Craig Rosebraugh of Oregon said officers detained him and others
> for hours and searched his van after telling him the police dog had
> smelled something. A five-minute video tape shot by the group shows
> the
> van search, but little else. Rosebraugh said his groups have had
> run-ins
> with police in several cities, sometimes resulting in arrests for
> civil
> disobedience.
> 
>       Dan Berger, an Animal Defense League activist and Spanish River
> High School student, skipped school Monday to picket police
> headquarters.
> 
>       "Police brutality is a far more pressing issue," he said.
> 
>       Later Monday, about two dozen people protested the fur industry
> at the Bloomingdale's at the Town Center mall. Chris Campanaro of
> Gainesville said he stuffed brochures in the pockets of fur coats in
> the
> store until he was told to leave.
> 
>       Mall security and deputies eventually told the protestors to
> leave mall property, which they did. 
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