New York redux

An Unenviable Situation focuses on police behaviour during the rally:

Whoever came up with the plan for crowd control today, it was brilliant, but disgusting. The cops created bottlenecks where there were none strictly for the purpose of keeping us frustrated, though we were not allowed to stand still. They could have opened and closed the cross streets to let traffic through and give free access to each block, but the city’s crowd control designers chose not to. They were afraid apparently that we would end up in mini-rallies on every corner, which happened anyway since they couldn’t move everyone. The cops themselves were assholes. I would have expected better, considering the makeup of the crowd. The first few times I dealt with them I was friendly, but after a while I stopped giving them the benefit of the doubt. The best that could be said was that the vast majority, regardless of race or gender, and most of them of course were white men, just didn’t give a shit.