The New York Civil Liberties Union charged the New York City police department this weekend with “gross abuse” because it denied a loud-speaker permit to the National Renaissance Party, a neo-Nazi group. The party had scheduled a rally Friday night.
Aryeh Neier, executive director of the Union, said in a letter to Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary that the neo-Nazi group is an “outspoken advocate of the abolition of the civilian review board and it seems the police engaged in a lawless attempt to save the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association from embarrassment of support from an unpopular source,” A police spokesman replied: “We’ve made a decision, and that’s it.”
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