OWS Zucotti Park

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Riot

Today, Newt is talking about a Gingrich-Cain ticket. I think that's the "book sales" tour.

Here is a fantastic video interview with the 84-year-old, Dorli, who was pepper sprayed at Occupy Seattle (along with some pretty damning police brutality pictures). She talks also about being in German/Austria in WW2, listening to Goebbles propaganda. Amazing stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=ENfWJzXVD0Q#!

http://news.yahoo.com/pregnant-teen-...113054448.html

"Pepper spray was deployed only against subjects who were either refusing a lawful order to disperse or engaging in assaultive behavior toward officers," Kappel wrote on the department's blog.

Kappel also noted that one man threw an "unknown liquid" at an officer's face and was arrested. The officer was not injured.

In another incident, Kappel said a 17-year-old woman swung a stick at an officer, and as police moved to arrest her, others tried to intervene on her behalf, prompting a blast of pepper spray.

Authorities arrested at least six people before quickly restoring order.




...now, i know it's fashionable these days to put all the onus on the police, but i don't know that to do so is telling the entire story. protesters have every right to do their thing. they don't however have the right to break the law. if they cross the line, there will be repercussions. i have to say that every time i've seen another headline blaring 'police attack' or something along those lines, when you read the article...the details explain just why they did what they did.
and as i said elsewhere, the police aren't the ones in control-the city leaders are. if they order the police to disperse a crowd, etc, they're going to do just that.

[GPK]

I can't wait to go downtown tomorrow and see if Occupy Roanoke has exceeded 25 people.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Danzig

...now, i know it's fashionable these days to put all the onus on the police, but i don't know that to do so is telling the entire story.

It's fashionable when there are actual videos of what is going down.

For example, a cop pushed a protester off a 4' tall planter in Dallas. The police denied anything happened - until the police chief checked YouTube and saw citizen videos, the officer push the guy off for no reason. Officer is immediately suspended. Chief apologized to pushed guy.

Oakland police denied any culpability. Multiple videos show differently. ACLU filed police brutality charges against Oakland PD.

Berkely PD say they didn't do anything to protesters - but multiple videos show protesters standing still, and police rushing them and hitting in belly with truncheons.

You have to realize, that ABC, NBC, CBS, etc is NOT covering this. For example, right now, Occupy Wall Street is outside the NYSE. You can watch a no-audio helicopter view of some ants from WABC in NY, or you can march on the ground with the protesters, with Tim Pool, here, live for the day, with narration: http://www.ustream.tv/theother99#utm...medium=9488285

LOL - WABC is showing an empty Zuccotti park - but right now all the protesters are at the Stock Exchange, and it's only being shown on protester live cams.