jonathan-cunningham:

stfuconservatives:

Finally some mainstream coverage (and not some hidden blog posts NPR) of the police brutality at the Occupy Wall Street protests.

-Joe

Well documented crimes that no one will be held responsible for. They can beat, spray and corral whoever they want with no consequences, so long as they are the enemies of the plutocrats.

pantslessprogressive:

Occupy Wall Street News Roundup, Sept. 24-25

Police Brutality:

Police pen up and mace female protesters [Raw Story]

Young man arrested simply for walking down the street [laurasthinkingwithportals]

Protester thrown over barricade by police [evanfleischer]

Protester shouts, “Is this what you’re about?”, gets cuffed [@LibertyPlazaRev]

Officer pushes sitting protester, man stands up, cops arrest him [@LilKing420s]

Cops Tackle, Mace Wall St. Protesters for No Obvious Reason [Gawker]

In the News: 

Occupy Wall Street makes the Sunday cover of NY Daily News [@DhaniBagels]

NYPD Silent On Pepper Spraying Of Downtown Protesters [NY1]

Wall Street protesters cuffed, pepper-sprayed during ‘inequality’ march [NY Daily News]

80 Arrested as Financial District Protest Moves North [NY Times]

Gunning for Wall Street, With Faulty Aim [NY Times]

Arrests at New York anti-Wall Street protest [Al Jazeera]

Protesters march in Manhattan, criticizing Wall Street [Reuters]

Police crack down on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests [Guardian]

80 arrested as ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest of bank bailouts, mortgage crisis marches in NYC [Washington Post/AP]

Protesters march in Manhattan, criticizing Wall Street, getting arrested [MSNBC]

Dozens arrested in 8th day of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests [CNN]

Police Arrest 80 During ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protest [Fox News]

80 ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protesters Arrested [WSJ]

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent; Video Shows Police Macing Women [ABC]

Wall St protests: Police harsh, media silent? [RT]

Occupy Wall Street Calm So Far in Ninth Day [Village Voice]

Why ‘Occupy Wall Street’ makes sense [Amy Goodman]

Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination [David Graeber]

Occupy Wall Street’s Leaderless Democracy [The Indypendent]

11 Things You Can Do to Help the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Movement [Alternet]

Must Watch: 9/11 first responder occupies Wall Street [evanfleischer]

Check out Occupy Together, a new site listing occupation movements across the country.

Email NY-based journalists and urge them to cover the protest [inothernews]

Watch the Global Revolution livestream.

Follow Evan Fleischer for a steady stream of news from the Occupy Wall Street movement.

[Photo: Alex Fradkin]

letterstomycountry:

darkillumination:

stfuconservatives:

Clearly a threat, now we can walk the streets with confidence now that the raging grannies have been taken in.

-Joe

If you haven’t yet, read up on the Occupy Wall Street arrests. For a minute, you’ll think these are pictures of some third world country and shrug in jaded indifference… And then you’ll realize that this is in your own backyard. These are people standing up to Corporate America and selfish politicians that are destroying the middle class.

This is America. Today.

Welcome to the American dream.

On the one hand, one wonders how any police officer, no matter how well-intentioned, could arrest an elderly person without looking bad; regardless of how lawful the arrest is.  Unfortunately, the NYPD has already brought suspicion on themselves via a slew of unnecessary, arbitrary, and apparently unlawful enforcement actions over the course of these protests.  So the viscerally upsetting nature of the photograph (Seeing a non-violent elderly person being handled roughly) is juxtapositioned against the NYPD’s already poor track record with these protests, leading one to the inevitable conclusion that what is going on in this photograph is very likely unwarranted.  The elderly woman in the second photograph could have punched the arresting officer in the face for all we know, but the NYPD has behaved so poorly these past few days that we no longer have a reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.

letterstomycountry:

evanfleischer:

Can’t believe I missed this earlier.

(Previous coverage / twitter list.)

The video circulating around the internet in which a small group of women are corralled and pepper sprayed is extremely upsetting.  It looks like they literally rounded up the protesters like cattle and then sprayed them despite the fact that the protesters were physically contained and not showing a single sign of physical aggression towards any of the officers.  

The spraying officer also hits a few of his colleagues as well, which tells me that this was not so much an insidious plan of action by the NYPD as a spontaneous decision by the supervising officer to be a dick.  

This type of wanton recklessness with the exercise of state power needs to be punished.  That man should no longer be serving on the NYPD.  His name needs to be released, and a campaign to get him removed needs to be instigated.  It is precisely this kind of arbitrary use of state power that our founding documents were supposed to protect us from.  Those girls did NOT deserve that, and the officer’s use of force under those conditions was not lawful by any stretch of the imagination.

I doubt any legal actions against him will work, since our courts have a hard-on for Qualified Immunity.  But we can try to get this asshole removed from his job so he doesn’t have an opportunity to do this in the future.

lovinganarchist:

socalfeminist:

32 Pictures Of Police Brutality From Occupy Wall Street Protests

Krass das die Polizei nicht mal Helme oder Schilde am Start hat und trotzdem so auf die Demonstranten los gehen kann O:

letterstomycountry:

naturalmentality:

I just witnessed a mass arrest and police brutality. I was detained in a police barricade and threatened with arrest for standing on the sidewalk as a spectator. Not a single member of NYPD could justify their actions to me. It was a peaceful protest before the cops showed up. THEY escalated the protest into violence with their aggression and infringement of basic rights and I can confidently say that as a bystander who had no involvement in the planning or implementation of the protest. However, I will now work towards upholding the ideals and principles behind the Occupy Wall Street Protest. The protest successfully exposed how our freedom here in the US is an illusion.

Emphasis added.  This is a classic problem with domestic policing.  The police often introduce the very violence they are supposedly seeking to prevent.  Libertarians have been screaming this at us for years.  Maybe more people will start listening now.

laurasthinkingwithportals:

A young man of color arrested in Union Square earlier today doing literally nothing but crossing the street.

I am fucking shaking with anger. This video shows Union Square earlier today. Clearly there is a protest but the area immediately surrounding the guy with the camera is just observers and people milling around. Watch the guy in the red shirt. From the vimeo link:

As you can see at around 0:30, a young man in a red shirt, Glenn Daniels Jr, is walking near the sidewalk with hundreds of other protestors. The crowd was attempting to cross the street to continue the march south down Broadway from Union Square. Daniels is peacefully walking with a water bottle, not committing any crime. At 0:35 he is approached by an NYPD officer and pushed towards the sidewalk. At 0:38 a senior police officer in a white shirt quickly approaches and grabs Daniels and another young man with a beard and backpack. The lighter skinned man is let go, but Daniels is arrested. The remainder of the video shows NYPD officers cuffing and detaining Daniels.

Unbefuckinglievable. He’s doing fucking nothing.

mollycrabapple:

Girl marching for the OccupyWallStreet protest, you are fucking beautiful.

Just ran into thousands of kids (and not kids) from the OccupyWallStreet movement who stopped traffic marching down Broadway.  Thanks guys