Marcia Chacón, who owns My Country Store with her husband, Wilfredo Matute, said the police had camped out in front of her store, stopping customers, making arrests and eventually scaring away much of her clientele.
Shortly after the killings, Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch said the mayor had "blood on his hands," and rank-and-file police officers engaged in a two-week work slowdown in which they stopped making low-level arrests and issuing summonses.
"The special rapporteur is therefore urgently calling upon the government of Myanmar to release all those detained or imprisoned merely for the peaceful exercise of their right to freedom of expression, assembly and association, including both long-term and recent prisoners of conscience, as well as in the context of the peaceful demonstrations, and to stop making further arrests," the report said.
The images in "Stop Making Sense" remain arresting to this day.
He said his Baghdad fighters feared a repeat of what happened in Basra last month when, he asserted, Sadrists stopped fighting but the government continued making arrests and raiding their strongholds.
Few of these stops have resulted in police making arrests or seizing illegal guns.
More than 163 pages, the feds detail a pattern of making arrests without probable cause, stopping and arresting black residents without justification and using excessive force.
The 531,159 stops made last year — up from 468,932 in 2007 — led to 31,665 arrests and 34,081 summonses, a ratio of stops to arrests roughly equal to 2007, according to an analysis of the data by the New York Civil Liberties Union.
The skinheads on the sidelines are shouting death threats ("Kill the coons") and Maya implores the police to stop standing about and start making arrests.
