What It's Like When the NYPD Raids Your Apartment At Dawn-- Because Your Roommate is in Occupy

I chatted briefly with musician Justin Remer, whose Brooklyn apartment was raided by the NYPD on Monday morning in an incident that was first reported on Gawker and sure looks from all angles like a pre May Day intimidation tactic. I was curious about how the experience felt. 

 “At around six-fifteen I was woken up. I sleep in a lofted bed, and there's a police officer standing in my bedroom shining a flashlight in my face. He woke me up and said ‘get down in the living room," he said. Remer dressed, grabbed his ID as requested, and joined his housemates in the living room.

He said the officers--about six of them--took the residents' identification and began trying to match them with a list of warrants.

Finally they asked if there was a "Joe Ryan" in the apartment, and found their sought-for match. They told apartment resident (and another musician) Ryan, who had an old outstanding violation for an open container that he would have to come with them and promptly arrested him.

But then, said Remer, they tipped their hand and asked the third housemate, Zachary Dempster, to come talk to them in the other room.

This is an excerpt taken from an article on allnet.org, to read the entire story click here