Joe Crow Ryan arrested, makes music about it

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On April 30 (the day before May Day), at 6:30am, one of the NYPD warrant squads broke into the apartment I share with Joe Crow Ryan and a few others, and roused us all out of bed. They claimed they were there because Joe Crow had an outstanding open-alcohol-container ticket from 5+ years ago. It became obvious however that this was just an opportunity to interrogate one of my other roommates who had been previously arrested at an Occupy-related party about his potential involvement in May Day activities.

I could go into more details, but there are already 3 fairly thorough news stories posted about it online (the last being a mostly accurate interview with me):

http://gawker.com/5906500/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/nyregion/warrant-squads-spied-on-wall-...
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/912131/what_it%27s_like_whe...

Joe wrote a song about the experience called "My Arrest," based on "Will The Circle Be Unbroken?," an old gospel tune made famous by The Carter Family. He invited a number of familiar faces to collaborate with him.

Here is a link to a music video, of the song being recorded: http://www.youtube.com...

Here is a link to the song download on Bandcamp: http://joecrowryan.bandcamp.com/track/my-arrest