President Obama's appointment of Chief Ramsey for head of the police reform commission is nothing short of awful. This Alternet article sets out some of his record of abuse of free speech rights while he was police chief in DC -- for which the city was successfully sued for millions.
http://www.alternet.org/...
Left out of the article's litany of wrongful police actions regarding the IMF demonstrations was that early on the morning of the main demonstration, the DC police raided the central place where posters, t-shirts, and other materials were stored in preparation for the event -- and confiscated them.
It is hard to imagine a worse possible choice for this job.