Bloomberg Ignores Menino's Warning as Convention Riots Loom

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg intends to allow anarchists with a track record of violence to gather on streets and sidewalks near the Republican National Convention in two weeks, despite warnings from Boston Mayor Thomas Menino that Bloomberg's plans are "a recipe for disaster."

"Boston put barbed wire around the FleetCenter," the New York mayor complained earlier this month, alluding to security operations that protected the Democratic convention from disrupters.

"[But] we're not doing that," he insisted. "[New York] is a city that values its reputation as a place where people can come, congregate and say what they want."

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