Hmmm…. sounds like the odds of the incident I mentioned yesterday being a bit of jack-booted thuggery are somewhat higher than my skeptic initially thought.
From the Courant:
Nancy Mulroy, a Hartford police spokeswoman, played down the list, saying Krayeske was arrested for his actions.
“List or no list, if you rush off a bike and start charging toward the governor during a processional parade, you are going to be arrested,” Mulroy said. “In this day and age, when security is a very serious matter, you cannot expect to act like that and not have to face the consequences. Our job was to protect the governor, and we took it seriously.”
But one witness to the arrest, Eliot Streim, contradicted the police account.
Streim, a Hartford lawyer who was watching the parade with a colleague, said police did not intercept Krayeske as he ran into the parade route. On the contrary, Krayeske photographed the governor without incident and was detained by police only after Rell had passed by, Streim said.
This is being actively discussed at many Connecticut-politics-oriented blogs (e.g. Connecticut Local Politics and ConnecticutBlog), as well as having been picked up by Kos.