Reply #1: No mention of the totalitarian police chief Timoney [View All]

[Kolesar]

I looked for it. Here the story of the FTAA protest. They even beat up lawyers:

Diaz's relationship with the AFL-CIO first turned sour in 2003, during the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit. Miami police went into the summit eager to avoid the violent protests and property damage that had accompanied an economic summit in Seattle four years earlier.

The streets of downtown Miami survived relatively unscathed, but police were faulted for treating nonviolent protesters like criminals.

''I was outraged,'' said Thea Lee, the AFL-CIO's policy director in Washington, and one of those in Miami during the FTAA. ``Nobody where I was was challenging the police in any way or disobeying any orders and we were being shot at and pepper-sprayed.''

The AFL-CIO has a pending lawsuit against the city for its handling of the FTAA. Miami has already paid out legal settlements to others.

''Overall, I think the police did a very good job,'' Diaz said Thursday. ``Can something like that be absolutely perfect? I don't think so.''

How do I write to Obama?