Feminist author Naomi Wolf was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly leading a small group of "Occupy Wall Street" protesters up and down a NYC sidewalk, outside of the police barricade behind which the protestors had been pushed.
Reports indicate that Wolf ha been a guest at the event being protested- Andrew Cuomo's presentation of the Huffington Post's "game-changer of the year" award. A group of protestors from the Occupy Wall Street camps had gathered to protest the New York governor over many issues, though his continued support of fracking and opposition to New York's "Millionaire's Tax". Wolf apparently came outside of the event and joined the protestors while simultaneously refuting that police had a legal right to barricade in the protestors.
She was eventually surrounded by plain-clothes NYC police officers, arrested, held at a precinct for a half-hour, and released with a summons for "refusing a lawful order".
I'm the most self-righteous person I know, and even I wouldn't have attended an event in honor of a man and then decided to go outside and protest that same man. Maybe an open bar at the event lent itself to Naomi's cause, but either way, she probably should've just stayed inside.
Reports indicate that Wolf ha been a guest at the event being protested- Andrew Cuomo's presentation of the Huffington Post's "game-changer of the year" award. A group of protestors from the Occupy Wall Street camps had gathered to protest the New York governor over many issues, though his continued support of fracking and opposition to New York's "Millionaire's Tax". Wolf apparently came outside of the event and joined the protestors while simultaneously refuting that police had a legal right to barricade in the protestors.
She was eventually surrounded by plain-clothes NYC police officers, arrested, held at a precinct for a half-hour, and released with a summons for "refusing a lawful order".
I'm the most self-righteous person I know, and even I wouldn't have attended an event in honor of a man and then decided to go outside and protest that same man. Maybe an open bar at the event lent itself to Naomi's cause, but either way, she probably should've just stayed inside.
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