FRANKSMITHSAYSNB EDITORIAL:
After about ten days of silence regarding the arrest of Representative Peter Tercyak, the New Britain Herald decided to print a story announcing he was arrested along with 20 others who were staging what the Herald termed a "peaceful" union demonstration in a driveway at the Hart Place Health Center in Hartford.
Interestingly, I am left with questions about how the Herald is qualified to describe the type of protest--especially since they failed to have a reporter present and failed to report on the original event? Even though 21 were arrested, the Herald seems to feel they were qualified to judge the protest as "peaceful" despite the fact that the Hartford Police Department apparently felt otherwise through their decision to arrest 21 "protesters."
This article appears to have been engineered as an attempt to make the paper appear that it had previously reported the arrest of the city’s state representative and was simply printing a follow-up story, when in fact the paper never made the previous report as anyone would have expected them to.
The Hartford Community Court Judge continued the case until next week (Tuesday, June 15th at 10:00 AM) when Representative Tercyak will be expected to enter a plea in his pending criminal case.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
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Because it was a liberal Democrat involved, it was automatically peaceful, but if it was a Republican or a tea party rally, it would have been disorderly just as the good legislator is charged--Disorderly Conduct.
The Hartford Police charged the representative with being "Disorderly", but the paper says he was peaceful?
A more appropriate name for the Herald might be the New Britain Zealot!
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