#Occupy Los Angeles: Police Brutality not seen by the media

[Fire Walk With Me]

THAT'S WHY THEY HAD THE MEDIA POOL

http://www.occupylosangeles.org/?q=node%2F2445

Submitted by Ruth Fowler on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 6:17am

No bad treatment of protestors occurred while the mainstream media was watching - it was only at the end that this occurred, when the non pool reporters were separated from the pool media, and the reporters not in the pool were shoved and hit by cops.

At this point I left, but other non-pool media refused to leave and wanted to stay reporting on the scene. Jared Iorio, our photographer, stayed for fifteen minutes after me and was hit repeatedly (twice) in the chest with a baton by a policeman until he left Solidarity Park. He joined a group of about 600 people on 1st and Main. After half an hour of being pushed back, the police called an unlawful assembly over the megaphone, and asked us to move or we would be arrested.

Approximately 300 of us walked down 1st towards Los Angeles, leaving 300 left standing by the cops. The police moved in after us, and kettled the 300 left behind. Seeing this, we ran, as a group, a couple of blocks to get away from them, losing people all along the way. Then suddenly a group of police emerged. We were blocked (kettled) in on Alameda between second and first. The police started running towards us - the group was now about 100 people by this point - and everyone ran into a parking lot to escape. The police ran after them and started beating protestors with batons repeatedly as they were running away trying to escape. I saw about ten police hit protestors. I did not get video footage nor photographs as I was running.

[Newest Reality]

1. This is the state of things.

This is how it is. Peaceful protest is reacted to with violence. Adult citizens are being punished as if their actions and free speech and right to assemble are the behavior of bad children.

This is what it's like. This is where we all are. This is not how it is going to be and we may look back and consider it to be trivial compared to the potential violence that is being brandished and readied to unleash both overtly and covertly should the impetus behind it be left unchecked.

We are there. Here we are. You can't run or hide from it when you know it is in your face, teeth bared, drooling, threatening. You can deny it or imagine that the mask it used to wear is still intact and covering the horrific grimace, but that is not protection from a monster that has come to life and will not obey.

Intelligence could be defined as knowing where you are and what to do when you are there.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Fire Walk With Me.

[msongs]

3. video of Obama's condemnation of police brutality against citizens asserting rights ->

"crickets"

[Anatos]

4. This is

getting a little bit too big to grasp. It's a runaway train, and we're going to start hearing body counts.

[ZombieHorde]

5. Wow, what are the odds only corrupt police officers were working that day?

1:0?

[PETRUS]

6. Thanks for the info. K&R

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. The point of course is to condition people into not wanting to risk their safety

even if it is to utilize and demand their Constitutional rights.

[AntiFascist]

8. While everyone had their eyes glued on LA...

there were large, angry crowds of working class people in Philadelphia during their police raid, even at 3am in the morning! Police would occaisionally get violent by throwing bikes and barricades at protestors. At one point, mounted policemen charged at the crowds with horses stomping on a few and breaking one woman's toes, sending everyone in a panic.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. Would you please start a Philly OP? You are so right, they deserve and need one!

I don't have any resource regarding it.

[AntiFascist]

10. I had one going last night here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2402572

UPDATE: Here's a story by none other than the Wall Street Journal:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5076093