Gray was chased and subjected to an arrest declared unlawful by the city's top prosecutor.
However, in the wake of the mass slaughter in the US, and the arrest of three IRA suspects in Colombia, the atmosphere in Belfast is difficult to gauge.
The six officers involved in Gray's arrest have been suspended.
Downey, from County Donegal, had been charged with the murders of four soldiers who died in the Hyde Park bomb in 1982, after his arrest at Gatwick airport last year.
In Uganda, survivors are at risk of arrest by police, as they are likely to assume that they're gay – a crime in this country and in 38 of the 53 African nations.
But St Petersburg lawmaker Vitaly Milonov, who is known for drafting legislation that inspired Russia's 2013 law against gay propaganda, praised the administrative arrest and recommended that the women face "corrective labour".
On Saturday, a district court in the Black Sea port city sentenced 18-year-old Margarita Radetskaya – who can be seen in the video, at the head of six girls dancing to the song Touch You Tonight by the Jamaican dancehall artist Aidonia – to 15 days of administrative arrest for petty hooliganism, it said in a statement.
Despite the Brooklyn DA's office having decriminalized marijuana possession in small amounts in 2014, cops still arrest pot smokers on these blocks.
But he said that, even under the Official Secrets Act, the police would not have been allowed to arrest Miranda because of what he was carrying.
The Chicago police statement did not address how long into an arrest or detention those records are generated or their availability to the public.
Often the smugglers just hand the boat over to the migrants, to avoid arrest by Italian ships patrolling the Mediterranean.
