NYPD: If you’re engaging in free speech and assembly to petition for redress of grievance (see Constitution), if you’re not hurting people or property, and if you’re ON the sidewalk, we’ll arrest you. (with a special pepper spray bonus).
NYPD: If you’re engaging in free speech and assembly to petition for redress of grievance (see Constitution), if you’re not hurting people or property, and if you’re OFF the sidewalk, we’ll arrest you.
NYPD: If you’re engaging in free speech and assembly to petition for redress of grievance (see Constitution), if you’re not hurting people or property, and if you’re ON the sidewalk, we’ll arrest you (even if nobody else is even trying to use that sidewalk).
New York City’s new free speech zone: that space between the sidewalk and not the sidewalk.
I detect a whiff of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
Back where I grew up, we called the narrow stretch of ground between the sidewalk and the curb the “devil’s strip”. Occupy Devil’s Strip!