Conflict Between Occupy Wall Street Protestors and NYPD Escalating

phx_zs writes "Today marks the tenth consecutive day that thousands of protesters have flooded the streets of Manhattan, specifically the financial district. ... Sunday marked a change of events as high-ranking NYPD officers exhibited brutal, unprovoked aggression on the peaceful group, reportedly arresting at least 80 people. Many photos and videos have surfaced of NYPD officers slamming protesters on the ground or into parked cars, and in one well-covered incident a NYPD officer (with pending police brutality charges from 2004) maced innocent female protesters point blank for no apparent reason. Many eyewitnesses and several news articles report that the NYPD specifically targeted photographers and media teams streaming the event live on the internet." Do any Slashdotters have eyewitness reports to share? There seems to be a lot of misinformation originating from all parties involved making it difficult to know how large the protest actually is at this point and whether or not the police are being quite as universally violent as the protestors imply.

Comments

Re:have fun protesting

[Duradin]

Protestors that don't understand that laws still have to be obeyed and consequences suffered should be removed from the protest.

If they had their permits and weren't breaking any laws, then they should be there. An unruly and possibly violent mob should not.

Re:Apparently,

[Anonymous Coward]

This type of ambiguity could be eliminated if Slashdot would join the rest of the civilized world and use standard case instead of title case for their article names.

Re:Policy City-State

[jmorris42]

> Considering the Arab Spring, protest does seem to have an affect.

Oh please. Stop. A bunch of malcontent hippie posers who set out to get into a fight with the police (yes they did, go read their own pages where they organized this stupid stunt) to generate media attention who know full well they are at zero actual risk of serious harm are nothing like the islamist revolutions happening in the middle east. Dictators shoot real bullets, the NYPD uses padded nightsticks and if really feeling threatened will break out the rubber bullets.

Those losers should go home, take a bath and put the same energy into creating a job. Note that I do not say 'get a job.' In Obama and Pelosi's economy that is pretty difficult, but a young fellow on the make can almost always hustle something that will put food on the table if they are serious. Effort almost always succeeds in America, even if ya fail a few times along the way. Then these guys will go from Takers to Makers, begin paying taxes and probably become Republicans.