YouTube of SWAT team beating Utah rave participants

[NVMojo]

the more things change, the more they stay the same ...sigh ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO_Sg9Kp588

[Kagemusha]

1. Is this some new video, or an older one spoken of months ago?

Just curious - I have heard of such cases. It's on the rise in the UK too.

[NVMojo]

4. not sure, it was just sent to me ...

[AX10]

2. SWAT teams are but domestic terrorists.

We are a civilized society, not a militarized one.
SWAT teams are NOT the police, they are boot-thug fascists. They have no purpose in our world.

[Webster Green]

3. I saw that video quite some time ago.......very scary

The promotors said they had all the proper permits, everything was legal, and they planned to sue the authorities.

I wonder what has happened since.

I think this was in Utah?

[Brian Stevens]

5. It looks fake

I have seen rave break ups, I know damn well they don't use armored swat teams.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. This one did. It's real, although several months old.

I remember the kid in the late 80s who was asphyxiated by riot-clad cops in the parking lot of a Dead show in L.A. Turns out he deserved it, because he was "behaving erratically". Define behaving erratically? I guess they were walking through the lot and saw him do a handstand, so they grabbed him and pounced on him.

Welcome to America!

[Brian Stevens]

9. Might have happened before Rodney King..

Is there a news link about that video I can read on this? Need to be convinced.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Here's one link to a news story on it:

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_235151602.html

I guess it was last year.

[Kagemusha]

10. Thanks for clarifying. I've heard extensively how this incident was real

Actually I haven't watched the video yet (I'm mostly a text man for the Net). Maybe I should.

[AX10]

13. "LAPD": "Los Angeles Pig Department"

[bullwinkle428]

7. Raves take place in Utah?

:shrug:

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Nope.

Not if the taxpayers can help it!

[Kagemusha]

11. What he said... they try to stop them through uh, idiocy like this.

Demand's a lot higher than supply, as raves go.

[Crabby Appleton]

12. Some info

not much official "news" about it

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Dance_party_broken_up_by_police_in_Utah,_USA

[file83]

15. This happened over a year ago (2005). I followed the story for a while

and it appears that it was really an "event of opportunity" for the police to take advantage of so they could use the rave as a "training mission" for crowd control. Notice how the "police" look EXACTLY like military personel?

[Kagemusha]

16. I'm sure it also pleased certain politicians.

Kill two birds with one stone.