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Originally Posted by pex
Let's not forget that I can tell you to cease and desist posting here but that it carries no particular weight.
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it would if you owned the forum.
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Originally Posted by Elmar
No street adjacent sidewalk in a city is private property. I don't care if your hotel's canopy is over it, its public property.
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if this really did happen on the "sidewalk" then i am as outraged as everyone else--i really am...the erosion of free speech rights in this country and erosion of transparency in government is downright scary.
but, if it actually happened on private property (e.g., the little pull up driveway loop for parking while checking in/dropping off luggage many hotels have), then it's a different story. the erosion of private property rights in this country is also downright scary.
i'm really not making a judgment one way or the other because i don't know what happened. i don't necessarily believe the media when they say it happened on a public sidewalk, and i also don't necessarily believe the police when they say it happened on private property.
it wouldn't really surprise me either way. it wouldn't surprise me to find out the "public sidewalk" was really the private walkway right outside of the hotel that is not along a street, but along the private drive of the hotel...and the "street" to officer pushed the guy into was that private drive and not actually a street.
it also would not surprise me to find out that it really was a public sidewalk and an actual street.
either one is equally possible.