Portland Police Posting Names & Images Of Arrested Occupy Protesters On Facebook: Check Out Comments

[Hissyspit]

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150325893010904.337000.65391820903&type=1

"Thank you occupiers for standing your ground and not allowing the police to scare you away from protecting our rights - Alabama stands in solidarity. Police you should be ashamed - the constitution trumps any local law you may have about a PUBLIC park closing at a certain time. These are my rights and your rights - if you take them away from me, you may as well be taking them away from yourself."

"Are they seriously trying to make examples out of them? They are only turning them into heroes."

"Do any of you realize that a HUGE problem in NY was the NYPD arresting people and not releasing information on the suspects or giving any reason why they were arrested? They were literally just wrangling people up, and locking them away with no release of info. Please don't mistake this as disrespect towards our cause, but a misguided attempt at being "transparent". THINK, PEOPLE. Not everything is the enemy.

Also, for everyone who said it was an invasion of privacy..
THIS INFORMATION IS MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE."

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[Electric Monk]

1. Bit of a tangent, but apparently the Portland Police Bureau 'likes' Grimm

http://www.facebook.com/portlandpolice

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Thank you officers

You are the BEST media and PR OWS could have. The harder you pounce...

[Harmony Blue]

6. I agree completely

they simply don't understand what OWS is about in the first place.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. You will find the PSA fitting then

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2215369

[FreakinDJ]

3. Cop - Over paid public servants who forgot how to serve the public

[stevedeshazer]

4. +1 for the comments.

The cops? Not so much.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Wow. Not one comment supporting the cops.

Gotta wonder why they posted this.

[postulater]

7. My Recall Walker sign was stolen from my yard last night.

Today there was a village cop stopped on the street in front of my house passing out stuff to the Trick R Treeters, so I asked him about the penalty for stealing my sign.

He said it is a misdemeanor if we can catch the person who stole it ($600 fine). I asked if he had any suggestions for preventing the theft and he said I should electrify it with an electric fence charger.

Then he told me all his kids are teachers and he wants Walker recalled too.

[Fumesucker]

9. I'm shocked...

That an officer of the law would say such a thing.

:hi:

[RainbowSuperfund]

27. This happened to me too , with a campaign sign. I got several

This happened to me too , with a campaign sign. I got several suggestions like rub it in poison oak or Vaseline. I tried the Vaseline on the next sign, but then they vandalized my storm sewer with that one, So I put the next one in my window and kept it lit. Good Luck on the Recall!

[Marazinia]

10. I'm glad to see so many of them are older

What someone said in another thread about young people getting a police record bothers me. I hope charges on all of them end up completely dismissed anyway, of course. But after reading what that person said, as an oldy myself, if getting arrested seems useful, I'd rather it were me and not some 20-something. I wish all of them were at least in their 30s, preferably late 30s.

[Historic NY]

11. Well you do know 2 can play the same game....start posting their pictures...

they don't like that :eyes:

[Marazinia]

12. They can't stop it, though, can they?

Not yet anyway.

[Harmony Blue]

13. Yeah anon

may pay them a visit...not a wise move anyway you slice it.

[EFerrari]

14. Over the weekend I saw that a human rights activist in Egypt,

actually a group of them, post pictures and info about abusive cops at this site called "piggipedia".

Piggipedia: Egypt's Human Flesh Search?


Three years ago, one Egyptian blogger launched a campaign to identify and expose security officials suspected of committing crimes against civilians-- but what role does it have after Mubarak's fall?



Journalist and blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy started the project in October 2008.

http://storify.com/ajstream/egypt-story-state-security-officials

[Modern_Matthew]

15. I gave them my 2 cents:

"Thank you for bringing to my attention a list of people that I should respect more than you. In the history books, you will be depicted as thugs and these people as heroes. When your grandchildren and great grandchildren come home from school and ask for your help with their History homework, I hope you point yourself out in the photos and explain to them which side you were on and why you picked it."

[sabrina 1]

16. They are posting pictures of the heroes.

And every one of them should ask for a jury trial.

What did they think this would do? Spite is not a quality that should be tolerated in our public employees. But as with everything else they've done, this will only backfire them also.

[woo me with science]

17. I don't go to Facebook, but...

it sounds like this is turning out quite well and not at all like the police expected. :)

K&R for the Hall of Heroes!

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Nope, honor roll

I don't have an account, but you can see it and read them.

[Hissyspit]

19. Morning kick nt

[AsahinaKimi]

20. They are not criminals, they are heros ..all !

eom.

[Hissyspit]

21. Another morning kick nt

[lunatica]

22. This is actually great publicity

Every one of those people in the photos looks like they could be your next door neighbor or your aunt, cousin brother or sister. The PPD must want to help the cause, because a big part of successful civil disobedience is getting arrested.

[cui bono]

23. Yep. I don't see any hippies in that bunch. n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

26. not possible to make your point without hippie punching, eh?

for the record, hippies ARE some of our aunts, next door neighbors, etc.

[cui bono]

29. You misunderstood my post. I said that because that's what the likes of Limbaugh and Faux News say.

Me, I'm about half hippie, half punk. I'm green, a recycling fanatic, went to UCSC, still have Birkenstocks (but don't wear them out of the house anymore lol), into healthy eating, like punk rock, have burgundy hair and tattoos and wear converse high tops now instead of my old birks.

Sorry to post in a way that you could have thought otherwise. :hi:

[Warren DeMontague]

31. fair enough.

I just get tired of the old 'see, we're not hippies' ... yeah, except some of us are.

thanks for the response, tho. :hi:

Worst mob I ever saw was clean cut and wearing dockers.

[cui bono]

33. Heh. Here's a mob that wasn't so much angry as they were dangerous...

[Trailrider1951]

36. No shite, Warren

THOSE are the a$$holes that SHOULD be in jail.

[99th_Monkey]

24. Those were largely "ritual arrests" in Portland last night. I was there & live 1 block from Jamison

park, where Occupiers were arrested.

The Mayor of Potland has been amazingly supportive of the Occupation, and has gone toe-to-toe with
arch conservative loonies (our local versions of Glen Beck & Rush L) to defend the Occupiers
rights to camp in two block area parks between City Hall, County Courthouse and regional Justice
center, as an excercise of their rights to free speech.

Mayor Adams told protesters ahead of time that he would arrest anyone attempting to camp there, or
violate curfew, because it is a densely populated (upscale admittedly) urban RESIDENTIAL neighborhood,
where peeps use their tiny pocket parks to escape the confines of their apartments and condos.

There was NO concensus among occupiers to occupy this particular park, but supporters of the
Occupation in general -- including myself -- were there in solidarity regardless of whether we
agreed with this particular choice for "occupying"..

I was there until 4am witnessing the arrests, and the Police were respectful and peaceable in making
all the arrests.. Those arrested have no shame about being arrested, in fact they are rather proud
of the fact imho.

[Hissyspit]

35. I was "there" with you. The live stream guy was surprisingly effective

Although the picture was rather dark and he could only get so close to the arrests. He captured some interesting conversations with police and park rangers, and he was concerned that some of the arrestees' arms were being wrenched back.

I'm really not sure of the motivation here with these Facebook postings and how it helps or is "supportive" of OWS.

[RoccoR5955]

25. WTF?!?!

How can they get away with this. Is this facebook page for the Portland police to pat themselves on the ass, and say, "Atta boy, good copper?"
How can they get away with selectively posting mug shots on a social media site? Isn't that discriminatory? Are they assuming guilt?
Geeze, the damn cops are EVERYWHERE, but where and when you need them!

[avaistheone1]

28. The protesters are not guilty of any thing so why should police be allowed to damage their

reputations?

THAT IS TRULY EVIL.


:grr: :grr: :grr:

[ohheckyeah]

30. I think some cops just made themselves

fair game for having their information posted online.

[Downwinder]

32. Hero's Honor Roll!! n/t

[A-Schwarzenegger]

34. keek

[donheld]

37. I'd wear it as a badge of honor

[JDPriestly]

38. If they are arresting people for demonstrating, not for other things

like drugs or disorderly conduct, they should be chastised by the courts.

After all, if our First Amendment rights with regard to political speech are so sacrosanct that Congress cannot pass laws to regulate the political speech of corporations, then no other level of government can pass regulations to regulate the political speech of ordinary people.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.