A little after 9PM, academic and feminist writer Naomi Wolf joined Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in front of Skylight Soho, a space that was hosting an event she attended for the Huffington Post, a website she contributes to. They were protesting Governor Cuomo’s refusal to extend NY’s “Millionaires Tax.” Noticing the crowd that had assembled across the street, she challenged the NYPD’s claim that people can’t march in front. After numerous warnings by police that she would be arrested for obstructing the sidewalk, she ignored them and was promptly apprehended. (Photo: Mike Shane/ANIMALNewYork) UPDATE: Video of arrest below.
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Huffington Post Writer Naomi Wolf Arrested in Front of Huffington Post Event
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9 Responses to “Huffington Post Writer Naomi Wolf Arrested in Front of Huffington Post Event”
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they just need to let her go. she is truly a leader and should not be shunned by her efforts. It is not right to ignore the requests from the police, but there must be a reason she wanted to persist; and no not out of spite.
She's a pathological attention-seeker. Always has been, never an academic. This posting is too kind.
What law did she break? And police doesn't make law so they can request whatever u don't have to obey.
they can request anything, while it is unrelated with law u don't have to obey (to be precise)
"she is truly a leader and should not be shunned by her efforts" Rightness
For the more affluent people who never have gotten police attention before all this: When NYPD gives you an order and you do not obey, the charge you with “disorderly conduct” or “dis-con.” It’s a blanket charge they can put on anyone…every police department has one of those…fyi. Also, NY has a statute, along with 20 some other states, that allows police to detain you if you do not provide them with identification when aked. And yes, blocking traffic is a charge (they get the water vendors you see on the side of the road with that all the time). Obstructing the sidewalk is what they get vendors with.
There are laws on the books that say that you can't block a public sidewalk so that the public would be unable to use that sidewalk. Apparently she was repeatedly warned that she was violating that law, yet she continued to block the sidewalk. One can WALK on a sidewalk, and one can PROTEST on a sidewalk, but one can't BLOCK the sidewalk, and that's what it's alleged she and others did.
There sure seems to be a lot of cops blocking that sidewalk.
can we arrest tourists who block the sidewalk now, cause that will help with with tourism.