A civil liberties group accused the Police Department yesterday of providing false information used to prosecute hundreds of people arrested in protest marches during the 2004 Republican National Convention, and said that information might have tainted the arrests.
The New York Civil Liberties Union said that deposition testimony from a police inspector who oversaw arrests during the convention flatly contradicted criminal complaints against the demonstrators sworn to by the same inspector.
But police officials defended the arrests yesterday, saying that they were "appropriate," and that the inspector's testimony had been taken out of context.
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