So, this morning I didn’t have a chance to read my “newspaper feeds” before I left the house and wrote about Cindy Sheehan gettin’ roughed up by the five-o. Well, turns out one of her supporters is actually the one who “roughed her up.”

Via Newsday:

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was roughed up at a Union Square rally on Monday, not by police officers who broke up the event, but by one of her own supporters.

Sheehan — whose eldest son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, 24, was killed in Iraq last year — was ending a speech when a group of officers surrounded 100 or so people attending the event.

As police officers arrested the event’s organizer, several of Sheehan’s assistants rushed to pull her out.

“I was speaking and someone grabbed my backpack and pulled me back pretty roughly,” said Sheehan…

Now… How many of the folks who jumped all over that story do you think are gonna print this followup?

On a related side note, Indymedia was sure to whip out the “repression” tag for this story and created the impression that it was police brutality and so on. So far, no corroborating evidence of these “facts” exists.