NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- New York City police broke up an anti-war speech by activist Cindy Sheehan because the gathering didn't have a permit to use a megaphone.
Sheehan stopped speaking to the crowd of about 150 when police told her, but one of her supporters, Paul Zulkowitz kept talking, and was taken into custody, the New York Post said Tuesday.
Dozens in the crowd began chanting "Shame, shame" as Zulkowitz was driven away.
"They came in like gangbusters. It was really ridiculous," Margaret Rapp told the Village Voice. She said she planned to file a complaint after an officer forcibly shoved her.
Sheehan, who camped out for 26 days near President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch to protest the war after her soldier son died in Iraq, is in a 25-state tour due to conclude in an anti-war march in the nation's capital Saturday.
