"Ex-IMF boss pleads not guilty to sex charges; Protesters jeer Strauss-Kahn" June 07, 2011|By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press
NEW YORK — Dominique Strauss-Kahn formally asserted his innocence yesterday to charges he tried to rape a hotel maid, but the drama unfolded outside the Manhattan courtroom as protesters jeered the former International Monetary Fund leader, and lawyers for the housekeeper said she was eager to testify despite a smear campaign against her....
As Strauss-Kahn left the courthouse, a throng of angry hotel workers, many in their uniforms, chanted “shame on you’’ as he left in a sport utility vehicle.
And the paragraph that was cut for the web version:
The protesters wanted to send the message that "New York is the wrong place to mess with a hotel worker," said Aissata Bocum, a Ramada Inn housekeeper. The 50 or so workers, mostly maids, were bused in by their union.
The implication being what?
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