Occupy Wall Street: NYPD gets thuggish

[marmar]

from the Guardian UK:



The anti-capitalist protests that have become something of a fixture in Lower Manhattan over the past week or so have taken on a distinctly ugly turn.

Police have been accused of heavy-handed tactics after making 80 arrests on Saturday when protesters marched uptown from their makeshift camp in a private park in the financial district.

Footage has emerged on YouTube showing stocky police officers coralling a group of young female protesters and then spraying them with mace, despite being surrounded and apparently posing threats of only the verbal kind.

NYPD officers strung orange netting across the streets to trap groups of protesters, a tactic described by some of them as "kettling" – a term more commonly used by critics of a similar tactic deployed by police in London to contain potentially violent demonstrations there. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/25/occupywallstreet-occupy-wall-street-protests

[LatteLibertine]

1. I'm not surprised

Bottom line, the most wealthy control our government and this includes the police and the military.

Some of this may be amusing to Wall Street now and it won't be if it continues. Eventually, they'll grow tired of the plebs polluting their sphere.

I admire the protesters and wish them the very best.

[1776Forever]

2. Reports on live streaming is it is mostly the ones in the "white shirts" other showing some support.

Here is something on the "white shirts":

White shirt NYPD pepper spray women behind barricade at #OccupyWallStreet
by MinistryOfTruth
Sunday Sep 25th, 2011 4:30 AM

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/09/25/18691267.php

[Leopolds Ghost]

7. who are the "white shirts"? the Officer class? crowd control specialists?

[1776Forever]

9. Found this.....Not sure if this is who they are but could be - they are Supervisor/Sgt's

Now, Nypd Blue Sergeants To Get White-collar Look
BY JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, October 31, 1999

http://articles.nydailynews.com/1999-10-31/news/18124747_1_sergeants-white-uniform-shirts-cop

Thousands of New York's men and women in blue are about to become men and women in white, the Sunday News has learned.
In a dramatic move to reinforce their supervisory status, all patrol sergeants will switch to white uniform shirts from the traditional NYPD blue.
The new look, which will debut in December, is not about fashion. Think of it as a visual cue that sergeants are bosses....."The white shirt will clearly differentiate sergeants as supervisors to both the public and the officers," Kelleher said.

(more at link)

[Generic Other]

12. A visual cue that sergeants are fascists

I mean bosses...

[Coexist]

3. knr

[TeeYiYi]

4. k&r

TYY

[banned from Kos]

5. fyi - an anti-capitalist group bombed Wall St and killed 38 people

back in the 20's. The NYPD takes this seriously.

[marmar]

6. And? The 1920s have exactly what impact on today's NYPD?

And FYI, this kind of thuggery isn't alien to today's NYPD.

[Leopolds Ghost]

8. And you were banned from Kos. I'm sure that's equally relevant. n/t

[fascisthunter]

10. LOL...so treat all protesters as possible terrorists because of an incident in the 1920's

Could you be anymore disingenuous....? You are nothing but an apologist for authoritarians who abuse us in our country. Move to Somalia please.

[toddaa]

14. BOMB THROWING ANARCHISTS!!!

Kickin' it old skool.

[Dawson Leery]

11. Yet the PIGS allow guns to be worn open at events where

the Black Democratic President is speaking.

[truthwillout777]

13. go Guardian

Why are the Brits the only ones covering our news?

[butterfly77]

16. The NYPD work for...

Murdoch and Fox news..

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. Kick and Recommend!