NYPD Undercover

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Jim Dwyer, reporter for the New York Times and co-author with Kevin Flynn of 102 Minutes : The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Times Books, 2005) says teams of undercover New York City police officers spied on potential protestors at the RNC over a year before the convention. Jethro Eisenstein, Civil Rights lawyer, one of the lawyers who originally commenced the Handschu case, talks about the laws that protect protesters.

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