“The NYPD needs to learn the First Amendment,” Mike Johns, 26, of Brooklyn, yelled when a cop shoved him.
“Shut up!” the cop barked.
At the Fox News Channel studios in midtown, police penned 1,000 demonstrators staging a “shut-up-athon” against the network. “Fox lies, people die,” they chanted.
It was all a little too much for Wisconsin delegate Karen Church, who was confronted by demonstrators demanding, “Who would Jesus bomb?”
Outside the Sotheby’s auction house, 100 black-clad demonstrators picketed the Tennessee delegation, members of which were bidding on the Johnny Cash estate.
“It’s totally wrong for the Republicans to use Johnny Cash for their little party,” said Brandon Jourdan, 25, of Manhattan. “I grew up in North Carolina and listened to his songs for the poor and beaten-down. The Republicans are the ones doing the beating down.”
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