Thousands not hundreds

What was Dirk Perrefort thinking when he made the following reference regarding the number of people who protested against the 287g program in front of City Hall last year.

City officials submitted their application to the Department of Homeland Security in February 2008, after much local controversy.

Immigrant businesses throughout the city shut their doors for a day then in protest of the partnership, and hundreds of people descended on City Hall for the Common Council meeting when the application was approved by a vote of 19-2.

Now, notwithstanding the fact that I detailed the massive size of the protest on my site, and that the News-Times front page article the day after the 287g vote last year cited "thousands" of protesters, it's important to also mention that every single media outlet that were in attendance at City Hall on that fateful day echoed the same figure.

Let's recap:



If that's not enough, here's video footage of the protest...





At a time where leaders at City Hall are in full PR spin mode over the ICE ACCESS program, it's important for reporters not to downplay the number of residents who are opposed to the implementation of this program.

...just sayin'