When people ask, "Where are they going to put all those arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge today?" I shudder to think of the possibilities. The imagination of evil knows no bounds.
It's now become common knowledge that Joseph Bologna a/k/a "Sergeant Pepper" was busily making "arrests" at the Republican National Convention in 2004 in NYC. That's what got me started on the quest for more information about "Pier 57/"Guantanamo-on-the-Hudson".
Below is an accounting from Charles Shaw who was arrested at the RNC and housed there.
Kettling: Another "Special Relationship" Between the US and UK
by Charles ShawSince London and New York share so much affinity, it will probably come as no surprise to Britons that "kettling"- the practice by police of cordoning off city blocks at both ends and containing protesters for hours before arresting them for all intents and purposes, had its US debut five years ago during the 2004 Republican National Convention. It was there that I and over 1000 other people were mass-arrested and interned in a makeshift prison camp set up on Pier 57, a filthy and hazardous decommissioned bus depot on the West Side Highway that came to be known as"Guantanamo on the Hudson."