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Post outrage monitor Andrea Peyser, covering yesterday's Sean Bell protest outside the Queens courthouse, noted what a total failure the event was: there were "less than two-dozen protesters." Whatever your feelings about the Bell case, you've got to admit that it's a shockingly small number; a miniscule crowd like that must mean that there's no real support in the community for the protesters' aims. Well, unless those aims somehow coincide with Peyser's. Take, for instance, the recent gathering against illegal immigrants in tribute to slain actress Adrienne Shelly:

On a street in Greenwich Village where the indie-film actress and budding filmmaker once worked in obscurity, more than a dozen people came out last night wearing her picture around their necks... The backlash begins.

Eh, twelve of one, less than two dozen of the other...

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Earlier: Peyser on Shelly Protest: Alien War 2, "The Backlash Begins"