Bob Hennelly
WNYC's Bob Hennelly is an award-winning investigative journalist. While at WNYC he has reported on a wide gamut of major public policy questions ranging from immigration and homeland security to power outages and utility mergers.
City Won’t Fight Judge’s Ruling on RNC
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
New York, NY –
New York City will not fight a judge's order that it release Police Department documents and videotapes that reveal how the NYPD handled protestors during the 2004 Republican National Convention. WNYC's Bob Hennelly has more.
The close to 1,000 pages of NYPD documents and 27 video tapes were sought by the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of several individuals who were arrested during the RNC convention and are now suing the City.
The Civil Liberties Union contends the Department deliberately adopted policies that resulted in protestors being held in custody for as long as 3 days which limited there ability to protest, while Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly have said the protestors rights were safeguarded.
All told, some 1,800 people were arrested with the overwhelming majority charged with violations like parading without a permit. Some were held so long that a judge cited the City for contempt when they weren't released on his order. For WNYC, I'm Bob Hennelly.
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