1. And the police commissioner, John P. Timoney, maintained that protest leaders had far more than nonviolent dissent in mind. 2. Another protest leader, Moshe Feiglin, denounced the Israeli prime minister in strong terms. 3. Another demonstration planned for Inauguration Day will be a march to the Supreme Court building led by the Rev. Al Sharpton, an African-American protest leader from New York. 4. As much as they dislike Pemex, protest leaders refuse to even consider returning the oil industry to private hands, either domestic or foreign. 5. But many protest leaders say they fear that violence would detract from their message. 6. But many protest leaders, including Hayden, also said then and later that they had come to Chicago to provoke police into violence and thereby expose U.S. tyranny. 7. Giuliani also denounced the protest leaders for distorting his new policy. 8. He said Giuliani tried to criminalize protests after the fire by blaming protest leaders for escalating the situation. 9. He has belatedly met a group of the protest leaders to discuss their demands. 10. He said Assistant Chief Ed Joiner directed the tactical response to demonstrators practicing civil disobedience while negotiating behind the scenes with protest group leaders. |