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 Sunday spread: 'Well, let me tell you something, we're not having any jokes here' 01/14/01 - Philadelphia Inquirer John F. Timoney is Philadelphia's police commissioner. "This is not meant as an excuse or a justification if we made some mistakes or if we could have done some things better. Let me give you the goal, the overall goal, the one goal that I wanted, the paramount goal for the Philadelphia Police Department: Not to be seen on the six o'clock news beating the living daylights out of protesters. That was the number-one goal. Then there were a whole host of other goals. Making sure the delegates got to the thing relatively on time. That we keep the traffic flowing on time. I said I'm going to be out there with them. At least if the s- blows up, I have some say in my own demise. The downside of that was you were out doing the cops' job, you weren't looking at the bigger picture. This is where they [protesters] screwed up. We locked them up. They decided they're not going to identify themselves. They could have left almost immediately. Some of them could have gotten summary citations. But no, they were going to pull what they pulled in Washington and Seattle, and got away with, by the way. Jane Doe, John Doe. Those two cities decided that's fine, they can leave. 'You're all fined $5,' as they're walking out the door. It was a joke. Well, let me tell you something, we're not having any jokes here. Break the law and you'll suffer the consequences. You're not going to do the Jane Doe stuff." |
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