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This same thing happened to me a long time ago in San Francisco during the Rodney King demonstrations. I wasn't politically active at the time, but lived in a poor neighborhood that had been associated with some violence that had gone on the night before. I was arrested along with seven hundred people and literally disappeared in an adjacent county's jail. The police had used city buses to take us all, and they had kept our names out of the system so that we could not be bailed out and after three days we were simply released. The National Lawyer's Guild managed to win a class action on our behalf after about eight years of litigation.
But to be very, very honest, I'm not sure I can be shocked about this kind of thing anymore when I hear about it in this context. You mean they arrested innocent middle class white people (and then let them go)? Good heavens!
Yes, I know its wrong. But its sad to me that it always seems to be these denials of civil liberties that get the most attention, while they daily grind based on skin color, ethnicity and income goes on unnoticed and unreported. I'm not saying not to report this, Glenn Greenwald. Thanks, you're doing your job. But I'm tired. I'm jaded. Hate me.
