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Police Brutalize Peaceful Wall Street Protesters
New York Police Mace, Brutalize and Arrest Peaceful Wall Street Protesters
According to various reports, New York City Police have maced, brutalized and arrested peaceful Wall Street protesters.
Here is a video of peaceful female protesters penned in an orange mesh barricade and then allegedly maced:
Here is a protester getting pinned down with a knee on his throat:
Here is a video of a protester allegedly arrested simply for talking to an officer:
Here is a video of another incident:
There are also reports that the police have confiscated cameras and other reporting equipment, and arrested reporters.
The Wall Street Journal notes that 80 protesters were arrested.
The cover of the New York Daily News reads:
Cops smack down dozens during protests
Its Wail Street
The protesters issued a press release today stating:
A march of about 2,000 citizens marched peacefully demanding that the voice of the 99% be heard. This peaceful march called We Are the 99%, was done in solidarity with the #occupywallstreet movement. The movement is entering its second week
and is gaining momentum both locally and nationally. Many more rallies and escalating actions are planned for the coming week. The occupation will continue indefinitely.The NYPD attacked the crowd of peaceful protesters and conducted mass arrests of marchers near Union Square with orange netting, sweeping up Reports of some injuries.
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a people powered movement for democracy that began in America on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the Spanish acampadas, we vow to end the monied corruption of our democracy.
#occupwallstreet is currently located at Liberty Square, formerly named Zucotti Park.
Here is the Twitter feed for the protest, and here is a livestream:
Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com
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Statistically, 47% of "taxpayers" don't pay taxes. And I suspect this crowd is slanted toward the "don't" side.
Just sayin'...
Idiot. Everyone pays taxes. Maybe not income taxes (if you have no income, or you are a huge corporation), but all kinds of other taxes from sales taxes to property taxes to taxes on gasoline ..........
Shoot me for not qualifying income taxes. But if you have no income, with what do you pay property and sales taxes, Mr. Bill? If your "income" is in fact a transfer payment, anything you pay in "taxes" is a net off of the transfer payment, so you are still a net no-tax payer.
BTW, where in the Constitution does it provide for welfare programs?
I love it when those that make less than I pay in taxes argue about this stuff.
Junk away, lib-laggards! :D
I must be the only one that pays property and sales taxes out of savings according to your theory.
<<BTW, where in the Constitution does it provide for welfare programs?>>
The Preamble to the Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Promote the general welfare is not a call for state-administered transfer payments. The Constitution does not provide for welfare programs and redistributive policies. If you think that's what the Preamble says, then you better go back and read up.
What is it with the idiotic left/right crap?
Only the indigent homeless pay zero taxes....everyone else pays.Federal excise tax on tires, state and federal taxes on gasoline, state taxes on food...the list of fees and taxes is endless.GE, the rather wealthy corporation...pays none.
The banking/mil/intel/industrial complex is the problem.
Get a clue.
Inflation, everyone pays.
Hats off to NYPD, didn't see any "brutality" at all. They did an excellent job dispersing those who wish to turn the USA in to Greece.
tortexal
Hats off to NYPD, didn't see any "brutality" at all. They did an excellent job dispersing those who wish to turn the USA in to Greece.
Did you see ANY protestors turning over cars, fighting with the cops, throwing molotoffs?
UH.............NO.
So there is NO (ZERO) comarison to your assine statement.
The US is Greece, but on a much bigger scale. Long tear gas and rubber bullets.
Long on debt.
idiot
tortexal....2 comments in 2 yrs 8 weeks
check the pro polizie posters on this story
disinformers out in force
use the track feature
.gov again?
Hey tortexal = strange cat.
Member for ------------------------------------ 2yrs. + 10 wks.
Made one post before this one -------------------------------- 2yrs. + 8 weeks ago.
Sleeper.
check mister0-1 also...interesting history himself
Maybe those net-bots that you hear about...
takin note of the sock puppet,,,,,,,,,,,,, hey puppet you belive they have your best interest at heart,,, lolololololo.... they'll eat you up any spit you out if it served them
Actually yes, not having civil unrest is generally a common interest between most poeple except for the far right and far left, ie extremists.
That's what the people who opposed Sam Adams said....time to change your handle to "Tory."
It was afterall the bankers that turned Greece into Greece...
Not sure how you figure, socialism is inherently detrimental to banking.
"socialism is inherently detrimental to banking."
Is that a fact? Based on my observations, our bankers didn't seem to mind socializing their losses.
Hjalmar Schacht did just fiiiiine.
occupation is best demonstrated
as being, nothing more and nothing less.
everything else is interference.
imo
The revolution will not be televised...........It will be you tubed and tweeted
Sometimes chaos is the only way to get people motivated.
Black Panther music from the late 60s... long before today's rap.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8
How long is it going to take to realize that black vs. white isn't the real problem? The wealthy, powerful, fascist corporatocracy publicises our disagreements so we'll stay at each other's throats, and overlook the fact that they are the real enemy.
They're screwing us to the wall, and laughing at us as we blame each other. The real answer is let's get together, and take the world back.
There are revolutionaries and there are revolutionaries. John Adams, James Madison, Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson had actual thoughts in their heads. The group on the street's thoughts are limited to a set of slogans crafted by a bunch of left-wing academics and Hollywood TV producers jammed into their heads thru 12 or 16 years of school and 22 years of watching TV. Letting the latter group have a revolution would have grim consequences.
Since when does a revolution wait for permission?
Finally, arrests on Wall Street... um... hey... shouldn't they be arresting the people up on the balconies?
You've made a common linguistic mistake. You mean to say 'machine gunning the people up on the balconies'. Easy enough to do ;o)
Stepping back on whether what the government & big business does that is right or wrong - why must these protesters resort to disrupting a civil life in the city for? To me, a peaceful protest doesn't need to take place on a busy city street just to make a point. Your point is better made not grappling with police and creating a "scene." I liken this to a tantrum a child would throw. It's "childish," and often makes you look worse. Almost terroristic to some degree.
Think about it for a minute. It's along the lines of a "flash mob." Did they have permits? The city has rules, and while the right to peacefully gather is one thing, once you disrupt ordinary life, it's no longer OK. They bent the rules for their own agenda (right or wrong), and this is the end result.
Now, not only have they given themselves bad press, this just gets filed in the category of another clash like the rest of them. The message was muddied.
There are better ways, really.
Because it wouldn't accomplish anything to have a protest on the corner of Hanover and Beaver, massa0_1.
Were you inconvenienced in some way, asshole?
What have you done lately? They were in a public area, it's a constitutional right to assemble. Do you think this country was created by people who didn't take to the streets? How are those "better ways" working out for you?
TROLL!
"Almost terroristic to some degree."???
I agree, we do see some terrorism on that footage. But, by which side?
"There are better ways, really."
There may well be, but who died and made you our boss?
Maybe they should have protested Wall Street bankers out in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
"Flash mobs" are different skin color, if you have been paying attention.
Damned right there are not only better ways, but completely effective ones, that would take little time to implement.
The only problem is who is going to clean up the dead bankers and the heroes bodies in the aftershock?
Remind me to make sure I get a permit when it's time to hang a few banksters. Wouldn't want to disturb your delicate sensibilities by doing it without the permit.
Remove the police and it will be peaceful.
Ya, worked out that way in London, for example.
The media lied to you! (Like that's hard for the BBC to do - they're pretty experienced at it by now. Sods.)
They weren't protestors - or even normal 'rioters'. I got caught up in one of those looting sprees as I walked out of a tube station. It wasn't a protest, it was the same old scallies who steal purses and knife people, getting together to steal tvs and trainers instead. You could hear them talking to one another about how they'd come from miles around, it was going to 'well massive', a mate was coming from Brixton, a car of other guys from Croydon, blah blah. If it had been a protest, they'd have travelled as far to storm parliament or a political party HQ. Wrecked the financial district. Instead they went straight for booze and consumer goods.
The police held back - deliberately, some disgruntled cops are saying. Their leadership wanted new powers to crack down on any protests, so they let it get out of hand. Now they've arranged with phone companies to shut down networks wherever and whenever they like - less than a week, that little arrangement took to secure - and they're working on introducing plastic bullets. It was so quick, they must have been lining up those changes for months, waiting for a window.
Compare that to real political protests by students back in December. The police knocked seven shades of s**t out of the 99% peaceful student protestors. Why? One guy poked Prince Charles' hideous wife with a stick, like a kid does with a frog. (That was so sweet - the look on her face, caught by a photographer, was awesome.) And twenty idiots broke some windows. Twenty out of umpteen thousands. That's a lower crime rate than an average booze-fuelled night in a British city. (Heck, <1% criminality makes the the student protestors more law abiding than the average person.)
Anyhow, <1% public disorder was all the permission the police needed to start breaking the law. I looked at the Home Office stats, and it turns out that man for man, the police were 50 times more effective at hospitalising student protestors than vice versa. Loads of students had fractured skulls. No police did. The cops were video taped tipping a disabled quadraplegic out of his wheelchair, punching pregnant women, kicking prostrate young girls on the pavement. They know they're immune to prosecution.
Gives the lie to the excuse that 'they were only doing their jobs'. They're just another gang. Just enforcers.
False
not a cop in sight...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VkOOMFaib8
Lets also not forget RBS was nationalized so once again (same happened in greece), all the extremist destroyed their own property. Should give you a sense as to the lack of intelligence with these groups.
Similar things happen to toddlers when they throw a tantrum, they break their own toys.
So you are judging all protests by this one protest? When no one listens to the people and their government doesn't represent their people then they have a right to rise up.
Destruction needs to be embraced, not forsaken. BUT, the destruction must be sufficiently great enough, violent enough, and include much loss of life, particularly of financial and political perpetrators, the men and women who caused so much suffering and loss for the masses.
Or massive strikes against targeted estalishments, and their owners, executives, and employees.
"When the masses rise up to kill the kings, they must KILL the KINGS". Anything short of that is as you say, amounting to a tantrum, easily ignored, and causing only the thrower of it, the most inconvenience, making his plight worse.
Try telling that shit to the african americans. I wonder where their civil liberties would be if they had never demonstrated to the degree that they did. If you think some peaceful protesters are disrupting society, wait until you see the full effects Wall Street will have into the future.
"african americans"
Why aren't African Americans just called Americans?
A Monkey: MLK had them sign a pledge to be peaceful. That b the diff v. some of the comments here.
Of course, some wish that the NYPD could be the Swiss Guards at the Tuilleries.
N'est ce pas?
- Ned
An african american in NY has a special priviledge. It's a place where he gets 40 to life for a joint(*). Needs a lot of lube to enjoy the democracy.
(*)Powerded by N. Roggenfelder.