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Thursday, September 23, 2004

Arrests at GOP Convention are Criticized

One late August evening, Alexander Pincus pedaled his bicycle to the Second Avenue Deli to buy matzo ball soup, a pastrami-on-rye and potato latkes for his sweetheart, who was sick with a cold. He would not return for 28 hours. As Pincus and a friend left the deli, they inadvertently walked into a police blockade and sweep of bicycle-riding protesters two days before the Republican National Convention began. 'I asked an officer how I could get home,' Pincus recalled. 'He said, 'Follow me,' and we went a few feet and cops grabbed us. They handcuffed us and made us kneel for an hour.'