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Who Is That Masked Man?

New York Police admit profiling anarchists.

By Eric Laursen

This city was treated to a most unusual political trial in June, when 12 anarchists appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court charged with “masquerading in public” on May Day 2000. It was the first prosecution in decades under a 150-year-old state law that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani dusted off two years ago to block a Ku Klux Klan rally. Thanks to an earlier… return to article

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