UNDER OBAMA: POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE USA
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(Daily News, Metro)
Since the Occupy Wall Street movement began, protesters, armed with their intentionally vague demands, have lacked a defining moment or iconic image to help propel media coverage. This week, they got both.
First, police clashed with protesters during Tuesday's early morning raid on Zuccotti Park, and arrested several journalists. Then on Thursday, the Occupy movement got its face--albeit a bloody one.
During a demonstration in Lower Manhattan, 20-year-old Brandon Watts of Philadelphia grabbed a police officer's hat and was subsequently tackled and arrested, sustaining a gash to his forehead. Watts' bloody face appeared on the cover of the Daily News and Metro newspapers on Friday. (Interestingly, the New York Post went with the Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore for its Friday front page; the New York Times featured an A1 photo of the protests above the fold, but no blood.)
Before grabbing the hat, Watts allegedly threw an AAA battery at officers who had set up a barricade. According to the Daily News, he was charged with assault and grand larceny after receiving medical treatment at Bellevue Hospital.
According to the paper, it was Watts' fourth arrest since the protests began in September.
Thursday also saw more police clashes with journalists. Michelle Fields and Direna Cousins, a pair reporters from the Daily Caller claim they were attacked by the NYPD.
The conservative publication has been critical of Occupy Wall Street, but protesters reportedly came the aid of Fields and Cousins.
After Fields was knocked to the ground, several Occupy Wall Streeters "came up to me right away and asked if I needed any medical assistance," she wrote. "They were actually very kind and helpful. It was the police officers who were very aggressive
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(Daily News, Metro)
Since the Occupy Wall Street movement began, protesters, armed with their intentionally vague demands, have lacked a defining moment or iconic image to help propel media coverage. This week, they got both.
First, police clashed with protesters during Tuesday's early morning raid on Zuccotti Park, and arrested several journalists. Then on Thursday, the Occupy movement got its face--albeit a bloody one.
During a demonstration in Lower Manhattan, 20-year-old Brandon Watts of Philadelphia grabbed a police officer's hat and was subsequently tackled and arrested, sustaining a gash to his forehead. Watts' bloody face appeared on the cover of the Daily News and Metro newspapers on Friday. (Interestingly, the New York Post went with the Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore for its Friday front page; the New York Times featured an A1 photo of the protests above the fold, but no blood.)
Before grabbing the hat, Watts allegedly threw an AAA battery at officers who had set up a barricade. According to the Daily News, he was charged with assault and grand larceny after receiving medical treatment at Bellevue Hospital.
According to the paper, it was Watts' fourth arrest since the protests began in September.
Thursday also saw more police clashes with journalists. Michelle Fields and Direna Cousins, a pair reporters from the Daily Caller claim they were attacked by the NYPD.
The conservative publication has been critical of Occupy Wall Street, but protesters reportedly came the aid of Fields and Cousins.
After Fields was knocked to the ground, several Occupy Wall Streeters "came up to me right away and asked if I needed any medical assistance," she wrote. "They were actually very kind and helpful. It was the police officers who were very aggressive
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UNDER OBAMA: POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE USA
A protester is arrested in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)
Zuccotti Park, which has been ground zero for the Occupy Wall Street protest since mid-September, was cleared by police in riot gear early Tuesday morning. As NYPD officers carried out the raid, they turned away members of the media--occasionally by force, with several arrests ensuing .
And like the protesters they were trying to cover, the journalists swept up in the raid have been crying foul.
"I'm press!" Rosie Gray, a reporter for the Village Voice, claims she told a female police officer.
Her response: "Not tonight."
Reporters such as Gray took to Twitter, using a #mediablackout hashtag to update their industry colleagues.
At a press conference, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said police barred the media from covering the raid for their own protection, and "to prevent a situation from getting worse."
"The First Amendment gives every New Yorker the right to speak out, but it does not give anyone the right to sleep in a park or otherwise take it over to the exclusion of others," Bloomberg said. "Nor does it permit anyone in our society to live outside the law."
"Could #Bloomberg be a secret Occupy Wall Streeter?" Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote on Twitter. "He seems to have just revived the movement."
According to Gothamist.com, the NYPD restricted airspace in Lower Manhattan to prevent local news helicopters from CBS and NBC from capturing video images of the raid. Police also used pepper spray on a "large number" of reporters.
Reporters from NPR and the New York Times were among the 200 people whom police officers arrested during the initial raid. Julie Walker, a freelancer for NPR, was arrested "despite the fact that she was wearing an NYPD-issued press pass." Police held her for four hours before releasing her.
Jared Maslin, a reporter for the New York Times's local East Village blog, said he was arrested as he tried to comply with the police orders to move away from the area.
The "reporter was put onboard a police van with eight other arrestees, including two New School undergraduates, a photographer with Agence France-Presse, and city councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, all handcuffed behind their backs," the Times said. Rodriguez "had blood on his temple from what he said was an earlier confrontation with the police."
On Tuesday afternoon, police arrested at least four other journalists who were tracking OWS protestors as they tried to gather at another nearby park. Among that group of arrested reporters were journalists from the Daily News and the Associated Press, according to the Times.
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A protester is arrested in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)
Zuccotti Park, which has been ground zero for the Occupy Wall Street protest since mid-September, was cleared by police in riot gear early Tuesday morning. As NYPD officers carried out the raid, they turned away members of the media--occasionally by force, with several arrests ensuing .
And like the protesters they were trying to cover, the journalists swept up in the raid have been crying foul.
"I'm press!" Rosie Gray, a reporter for the Village Voice, claims she told a female police officer.
Her response: "Not tonight."
Reporters such as Gray took to Twitter, using a #mediablackout hashtag to update their industry colleagues.
At a press conference, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said police barred the media from covering the raid for their own protection, and "to prevent a situation from getting worse."
"The First Amendment gives every New Yorker the right to speak out, but it does not give anyone the right to sleep in a park or otherwise take it over to the exclusion of others," Bloomberg said. "Nor does it permit anyone in our society to live outside the law."
"Could #Bloomberg be a secret Occupy Wall Streeter?" Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote on Twitter. "He seems to have just revived the movement."
According to Gothamist.com, the NYPD restricted airspace in Lower Manhattan to prevent local news helicopters from CBS and NBC from capturing video images of the raid. Police also used pepper spray on a "large number" of reporters.
Reporters from NPR and the New York Times were among the 200 people whom police officers arrested during the initial raid. Julie Walker, a freelancer for NPR, was arrested "despite the fact that she was wearing an NYPD-issued press pass." Police held her for four hours before releasing her.
Jared Maslin, a reporter for the New York Times's local East Village blog, said he was arrested as he tried to comply with the police orders to move away from the area.
The "reporter was put onboard a police van with eight other arrestees, including two New School undergraduates, a photographer with Agence France-Presse, and city councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, all handcuffed behind their backs," the Times said. Rodriguez "had blood on his temple from what he said was an earlier confrontation with the police."
On Tuesday afternoon, police arrested at least four other journalists who were tracking OWS protestors as they tried to gather at another nearby park. Among that group of arrested reporters were journalists from the Daily News and the Associated Press, according to the Times.
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[B]Protesters crawl on their knees after being sprayed with pepper spray. You can see video of this incident
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[B]Protesters crawl on their knees after being sprayed with pepper spray. You can see video of this incident
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A protester is arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers after he attempted to join a group of Occupy LA demonstrators occupying a park in front of the Bank of America building, November 17, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles. Several dozen were arrested by the LAPD after marching through downtown.
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A protester is arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers after he attempted to join a group of Occupy LA demonstrators occupying a park in front of the Bank of America building, November 17, 2011 in downtown Los Angeles. Several dozen were arrested by the LAPD after marching through downtown.
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quote:Originally posted by asj:
UNDER OBAMA: POLICE BRUTALITY IN THE USA
Flying tackle tarant.
The banna in the grey suit trying to "cop" a feel
If Obama has a police force then I have a bridge to sell; and it's not the Canje bridge.
Ask you know that police forces in the US are local institutions. At the federal level it's the FBI.
If you wish to attack Obama and can't find anything else then these postings of yours are a pathetic failure.
Ask you know that police forces in the US are local institutions. At the federal level it's the FBI.
If you wish to attack Obama and can't find anything else then these postings of yours are a pathetic failure.
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In this case it's dictator Bloomberg's police force
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asj don't have a clue about police brutality...he just sit in his room tappin away at his computer
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ASJ trying to deflect from PPP's record of burning little boys genitals under Jagdeo's leadership without compensating and telling the UN Human Rights Commission that they did. Straighten out your own house first then attack other people's house.
quote:Originally posted by raymond:
asj don't have a clue about police brutality...he just sit in his room tappin away at his computer
That is not true. asj is an active member of the PPP who pay the police to mistreat non-PPP voters and innocent kids. GNI has been full of these pictures, which are even more gruesome than the US pictures.
NYPD was always brute force and ignorance. For decades.
They were referred to as pigs in the 60's, and they still are. Unfortunately, you can't drop a stick lash on these animals because they quick to pull a gun.
They were referred to as pigs in the 60's, and they still are. Unfortunately, you can't drop a stick lash on these animals because they quick to pull a gun.
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this looks like a ppp supporter, wonder what wickness he was up toquote:Originally posted by asj:
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how is obama responsible for this? this is the work of bloomhitler, that nazi, dictator sob. who would expect anything more of bloomhitler? wall street pays the man $450,000,000.00 a MONTH for bloomberg terminal fees alone.
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