2004 Republican National Convention in NYC

At this point I had my camera back and was actually inside the porta-pottie in the front. Since my cuffs had been clipped (it's difficult to go to the bathroom with cuffs on), I was now free to use my phones and camera. I took this shot out of the top where there was a slight gap. Looking towards the front of the building (east), you can see the fence directly in front of the porta-pottie, a line of people waiting to get into the big pen, and a couple of porta-potties straight ahead that were part of one of the smaller female pens mentioned earlier. In between these pens and the one I was in were piles of property in plastic bags (you can see some in the front). Beyond the pens in the background was the area where the buses would eventually pick people up to take them to the Tombs. (The buses that dropped detainees off at Pier 57 did so on the left side (north) near the male pens.) Also in this area was a most incredible site - dozens and dozens of cops slumped over tables fast asleep. Of course, by the time we got over there, just about all of our cameras and phones had been confiscated.

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