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Authorities vowed they would be prepared for the mass demonstrations planned for August's Republican convention. They spied on activists in New York, enlisted the feds, and spent millions on the latest in antiriot technology. But in the end, protesters said, the cops fell back on an old tactic: manhandling and jailing dissenters, First Amendment be damned. —Chisun Lee

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