[UPDATE] Video: At Least 60 More Arrested On 8th Day Of Wall Street Occupation

you're still way too dumb , numnuts

LOL. Angry a bit? You read it genius. It was from the NY Times. I guess that the truth hurts a bit huh?

NYPD really needs to be rebuilt.


Over the weekend, a grand jury in the Bronx was reported to have indicted 17 police officers for having performed a special form of magic: making traffic summonses disappear for the benefit of the overprivileged. The accused officers, among them a raft of police union delegates, are supposed to turn themselves in this week, perhaps as early as Monday, to be charged formally with bribery, perjury, official misconduct and other crimes. No “perp walks” for them, apparently.As police scandals go, the ticket-fixing business seems relatively small bore compared with gothic tales from the past.It lacks the cinematic sweep of the departmentwide corruption exposed four decades ago by Detectives Frank Serpico and David Durk. It is not as appalling as the outrages of the “Dirty 30,” officers in the 30th Precinct in Harlem charged two decades ago with stealing guns, drugs and cash. It is certainly not as horrifying as the depravity of the “Mafia cops,” Stephen Caracappa and Louis J. Eppolito, who are spending the rest of their days in prison for having served as assassins for the mob.Still, when it comes to tarnishing the Police Department, the latest indictments will do. Hundreds of officers have been linked to the scandal. Many are expected to face departmental discipline even if they escaped criminal charges.Naturally, if someone took a bribe, someone else had to have offered it. It would do us all good to learn who in the upper tiers of New York political and social circles may have weaseled their way out of fines after behaving badly behind the wheel.Even among those of us whose normal default position is to give the police a benefit of the doubt, heads are shaking over recent behavior by those we entrust with a uniform, a badge and a gun.Last month, Officer Michael Pena was charged with grabbing a woman off the street in Inwood, in northern Manhattan, and raping her at gunpoint. The police are investigating whether Officer Pena was involved in other rape cases.Also last month, two certified Police Department bozos received jail sentences in the infamous case of a young woman who accused them of having raped her in her apartment while she was in a drunken stupor. A jury had acquitted the officers of rape but found them guilty of misdemeanor official misconduct. That the two men, Kenneth Moreno and Franklin L. Mata, disgraced the uniform is incontestable. Mr. Moreno was sentenced to a year in jail, Mr. Mata to two months.Now we have questions about whether some officers can control themselves when dealing with political protesters they may dislike.Similar questions were raised in the mass arrests of demonstrators ­­— and some bystanders — during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Hundreds upon hundreds of people were rounded up then in the course of expressing their views about the state of the country. Charges were later dropped in nearly all cases.The latest episode turns on the arrests of dozens of men and women who have been protesting an American economic system they deem unjust. On Saturday, they marched to Union Square from an encampment that they had set up a week earlier near Wall Street. Some of them seemed primed for confrontation with the police. But others merely voiced their grievances.A few young women were stopped by the police just south of Union Square and corralled on a stretch of sidewalk with plastic netting held by officers. An amateur video posted on the Internet shows an officer in a white shirt — signifying fairly high rank — walking up to the women and dousing them with pepper spray. The officer then walks away, disappearing behind a wall of blue uniforms. The women fall to the sidewalk, crying in pain.In the video, there is no sign of their having been violent or posing a threat. A police spokesman, in defending use of the spray, offered a veiled suggestion that the video might have been edited to make the officer look bad.No such doctoring was evident, though. There was also no indication that the department intended to investigate this event.But in an age of ever-present cameras, smartphones and other recording devices, the police are surely aware that their behavior is subject to scrutiny as much as anyone else’s. In a sense, they, too, have been Mirandized.There are situations in which anything they say — or do — can and sometimes will be used against them.

where did you copy that from.  youre way to dumb to write all of that.  and if you did your just wasted the most time ever on a pointless post on a pointless site.  congrats no one will read your wasted time

Can i honestly ask someone in here to tell me what they think is going to change because of this protest????  I just see every nypd officer making doctor pay this year because of the overtime and nothing in the economy or politics changing.  there are 8 million people in this city and a few hundred or maybe a thousand unemployed hippies think they're going to change the country.

Don't mess with Bloomie's bed partners....you get your head cracked open.

New York Pig Department: New York's Swinest

Yep

Is it a police state in 1984 yet? Getting too damn close!

Arrested girl's account of protesters abuse by NYPD:

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

still forming my opinion on the protest but i wonder why they aren't protesting where the banks are located.  most of the banks moved their main offices to midtown. goldman sachs hq is in battery park city. i would feel more supportive of their protest if they were smarter and better organized.

Golman Sachs is down there, on Maiden Lane. Deutsche Bank is in Battery Park City. Morgan Stanley is in Times Square, BofA is in Midtown and so is Barclays.

yup.  but goldman sachs moved their headquarters to battery park city (across the street from the world financial center and shake shack).

moltov moltov moltov

To those of you who live in the city, I seriously suggest you visit Liberty (Zucotti) park and talk to some people who are camped out in order to form a realistic opinion.

My opinion:  I'm for this cause because we've all been fucked by this "financial crisis."  However, I agree with some commenters that the movement is incoherent and somewhat disorganized.  I visited the park as an observer and I'm still forming my overall opinion.   

But again, I would go down to the park and learn more first hand instead of forming opinions based on the youtube clips.  Unlike other Gothamist stories, this one is ongoing and there's plenty of opportunity for self education.

http://youtu.be/moD2JnGTToA

I hear lots of shouting, but the women that get sprayed by surprise, directly in the face.... completely uncalled for.  I can't believe that officer is going to get away with a crime like that.

I love how they leave out the part of the video where a protester is see resisting arrest and attacking an offer. Then the crowd reacts and tries to push past the barrier to "rescue" the guy. Then the police mace the crowd.

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

Yes, they leave out the part where the dangerous screaming people are completely overwhelming the beefy cops. Certainly a reason for a well-trained person with a gun to shoot pepper spray in the face of a woman. But then again, I expect this sort of "law and order" porn from the right wingers. Fascists love when people get their heads beaten in for speaking up.

everything on this site is one sided.  they still think obama is doing a good job

Love the video of the NYPD macing corralled women for no reason, and accidentally spraying one of their own officers. Keep it classy NYPD thugs!

youtube videos on tv news tonight. fox5, upn9, wpix, etc. fox5 neutral in coverage saying at least 80 arrested with statements by protesters why they were protesting. wpix was more biased by showing interviews of bystanders ridiculing the protesters.

Dozens of hippie protesters... smell the urine!

Hippies!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

"A strange memo was circulated earlier today at Zuccotti Park reminding demonstrators of the "prohibited" actions that they're engaging in during the occupation, but the source of the flyers remains unknown."

The source would be Brookfield Properties which owns the Zuccotti Park. Given the flagrant violations that the protestors have been committing, Brookfield should step up and ask authorities to forcefully remove them from the premise with all means necessary. It is Hippie bashing time, just like the old days. 

Don't you right-wing trolls ever get tired of repeating yourselves?  You sound like my parents, and I'm 70 years old.

Why these hippies were out "protesting" pro choice or whatever I was out earning a living THATS THE AMWERICA WAY! YOu goddamn hippy scum. Just be happy for what you got! sure you want to make the wall street dollers who doenst but you cant cry like a woman! you gotta be happy making the wage that god has determined you are able to make. peace out hippies

So your imaginary sky friend also determines how much money people can earn in their lifetimes now? 

Your comment is that of a person who has been completely and perfectly brainwashed. Or you were really drunk on Jaager when you wrote it.

First I read "hippies", and though you are stuck in the sixties. Then I read "you cant cry like a woman" and it seemed like you are stuck in the fifties. And the "be happy for what you got" belongs in communist China more than anywhere else. Do you even know how nuts you sound? Maybe you should take a small vacation (or at least a Saturday off).

sounds like you haven't worked a day in your life hippy.  get motivated and get a career.  singing kumbaya stoned on a williamsburgh street is not a job

I'm just a little curious. What's with this whole thing of calling people hippies? You do realize that the hippie movement ended in the sixties. There are no hippies or even ex-hippies under the age of 60 in existence. You do realize this, yes?

Jimmy, I've served my country, done my time.. comming home to such generic advice lets me know the number of robots has increased. Don't listen to the people who pay you the most money. Have a heart - love each other, and get to know someone on the street. Smoke pot, it's good for your health and helps you cope with your own inhibition... because you have dreams that you will never see come to life, just like everybody else. Have a good day.. it's Sunday for crying out loud - go talk to people. Living/working in a box is not a career.. still a pawn, good man.

This has got to be the most positive, level-headed and truthful comment I've ever read on this god-forsaken website. Thank you.

Hippy? I am a software engineer with a master's degree and fifteen years of experience. I've never even tried pot in my entire life. I'll tell you what it sounds like: it sounds like you are completely incapable of having a discussion of an issue at hand. But go ahead, call me a crackhead if you like. I'll sure be looking for your valuable input on the next topic.

Did you mean Williamsburg? Because those are hipsters, not hippies. They are pretty definitively not the same. Also, what exactly do you think happens on Bedford Ave?

Hey dickhead, I, for one, cry like a woman because I AM a woman. And I work for a bulge bracket bank. Maybe you can fuck off with the sexism? Thx in advance!

Heh heh. She said bulge...

"Just be happy for what you got." That's the spirit... of a brainwashed prole. Good luck in life, buddy. Read a book someday.

As much as a certain segment of society chooses to combat what they perceive to  be the gaming of society by entrenched power interests perhaps we ought to ask the uncomfortable question- does anyone then really care anymore? And if they did, how is it that the movement that started off with 5000 members last weekend has dwindled to less than 200 come this weekend? After all the concerns of the ‘occupy wall street’ group are legitimate ones with deep consequences.

http://scallywagandvagabond.co...

I was down there the other day, during an afternoon march, and things were fine. 

What changed? 

The cops are really loosing control of the situation - right on the day people were invited into town for a bigger march. The day 'the whole world is watching' was even more true. 

You don't know what went wrong with an unorganized protest that lacks leadership and invaded the second or third biggest tourist trap in the city?

It looked to me like there certainly was a clearly delineated organizational leadership, deferring to common consensus on some executive decisions. From what I've seen, anyway. 

Its not the first time social grievances have been brought before Union Square, either. 

You don't sound amiable at all.

Yeah? Who are the specific leaders?

Did those other "social grievances" have better, more central leadership? Because if so, they're not comparable.

And yeah, well, lack of critical thinking irritates me.

This logic fail just made my head hurt. 

PA: Don't know organizational plan. 

therefore: organization does not exist

therefore: geographic location PA claimed was invalid suddenly becomes MORE valid in the past. based on PA's ignorance of current organizational plan.

PA: "And yeah, well, lack of critical thinking irritates me."

So you don't know the organizational structure either?

Also, I'm gonna go ahead and ignore most of this rambling, because it's completely lacking in any kind of reading comprehension. Did I say the organization "doesn't exist"? Nope! Did I claim the geographic location was "invalid"? Nope! (This one is partially because that statement is completely meaningless). 

You said "You don't know what went wrong with an unorganized protest that lacks leadership and invaded the second or third biggest tourist trap in the city?"

There IS organization, and the "invasion" of Union Sq is fairly normal.

You need to stop snarking so you can better keep track of what you are saying...stop in for a general assembly & you might learn something.

They're the only people in this country protesting the financial criminals and their enablers in Washington and THEY'RE the ones not thinking critically?

No.

Yeah. I haven't heard one protester in the group say anything that suggested they understood economics. And if you don't, you're being contradictory for the sake of being contradictory. That doesn't mean you're thinking critically.

How many protesters have you talked to?

You don't have understand credit default swaps and mortgage backed securities to see what's wrong with our country right now.

You do if you blame them for the crisis. If you don't, then no; I'd guess not. You should probably understand whatever it is you're blaming instead. Everyone I've talked to is pissed at banks for the 2007 fallout, but they don't understand why it happened.

Everyone of these lazy bums would take a job offer from Goldman Sachs if offered.

And they would make Goldman Sachs a respectable company built on honest work, instead of a mafia of well connected crooks that it is now.

No they wouldn't because then they would be forced to become responsible adults. It's so much easier to keep sponging off of Mom and Dad.

Yes, when I hear the word responsible, Goldman Sachs is the first name that comes to mind.

Thats the dumbest self-masturbatory sentence I've ever  read that you've written.

It's almost certain that LazyNanny  conducted an in-depth survey with each and every protester before making that insightful comment.

Good !!!! The first thing our boys in blue need to do is throw these smelly dirty hippies into a shower, They are stinking out the whole downtown area. Losers !!!

I hope you're aware that your "boys in blue" aren't there to protect you nor do they give two shits about you. Their job is to protect the monied elite on Wall Street and defend the status quo. To them, you're nothing but a pathetic "civilian" that they can mace, beat and abuse if you get too close to their masters. 

It really is amazing how the majority of this country's population is so ignorant that its actively applauding the forces of oppression and injustice being used to suppress it and keep it dumb, complacent and scared.

They are their boys in blue too, not just yours, dummy.

right on, they're just disgusting.

You don't have much to say other than to call people names like "loser" and "disgusting," do you?

here here!  one shower one vote.

when are they going to start burning cars. If every person set one car on fire it would quickly overwhelm the authorities. That and abandoning large suitcases on the street at various points in the neighborhood. They wouldn't know what to do in the ensuing chaos.  We need a downtown riot.

what a douche you are.  bet you smell and look like the loser you are.  do you even want job?  no, i'm sure it's more fun to destroy and burn things, really just for the hell of it.  great life you have there for yourself, sure your parents are proud.

Do YOU have a job? I'd be surprised if any credible organization hired someone with such poor written communication skills. Someone who writes things like "Do you even want job?"

I don't have your powers to read minds, so unlike you, I can't claim to know the protesters collective motivations, but they are not destroying things or burning things.

i have a salaried job that doesn't provide me health care, security, or much of a living wage and i feel i will never find it so yes, im pissed, and no, i don't see much purpose in striving in futility. what i want to see is the moment when the real anger that is bubbling under the surface of this society bursts through. people everywhere are pissed off and its going to explode before we know it. from egypt to greece to spain to london and soon here.

these occupiers aren't lazy people. these aren't dreamy optimists. they are pissed off people like you or me who recognize its not a personal failing but a systematic one. they see how badly we have all been slowly squeezed and cheated over the past decades. they are the kids who have come out school only to find there is no opportunity and no future. nobody hiring. nowhere to apply themselves.

there is more social turmoil then we are willing to admit. and it won't resolve peacefully because our society is so fractured and stubborn. so don't hurl personal insults because its all of us, not a few. just look at how our industry and government is failing and consider why these people are here.

i encourage the destruction because i believe only a crisis will precipitate a change. its coming. and there is no reason to prolong it. it would be amazing if it started on wall st, where global capital conspires to concentrate our collective wealth into the hands of a few borderless entities and enslave us.

I can't wait for the people to really burst out into the streets. You will see Bloomberg's gestapo beating and killing citizens in the streets. The world will really see how civilized the United  States really is. Our own Tianenman Square. They will  see how low they will stoop to protect the "too big to fail".

I'm supportive of the protests but I wouldn't be so keen to wish for destruction. It's entirely likely that you and people like you will end up as casualties rather than survive to be the future leaders of a tribe of former New Yorkers.

Charging someone only with resisting arrest when they have broken no laws is disgusting and needs to stop. The police state of NY and the NYPD is completely out of control.. Here is a satire video we just did on why you should join the NYPD, hope you enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

The NYPD just shot a crowd of females in the face with mace. Start at the:40 mark to see what your tax dollars are paying for.  http://youtu.be/moD2JnGTToA

Serious question- where are they getting electricity from to run all the laptops and cameras they have?

They have generators at the park, or they plug them into outlets in McDonalds, Starbucks, etc.

Starbucks? McDonald's? Oh, the irony.

It's ironic in a shallow sense but if you're trying to label the protestors as hypocritical, then you have failed to put the situation into context. If I support the ending of fossil fuel production, but have to fill my car up with gas in order to get to work, am I also a hypocrite?

Damn, these losers are still at it!??  Get a life folks, and a shower.

dam all those losers spending time posting trite remarks on a forum!?? Get a life folks, and a purpose.

Yeah, they should sit in front of their computers making comments on Gothamist  What a life!

Is this the third or fourth thread related to the protest that you've repeated this same clever witticism.  Are you really this dull?

When you cut yourself, remember to go down the river and not across the stream.

Damn, these losers are still at it!??  Get a life folks, and a shower.

There, dick, I said it too

The few, the proud, the stoopid.

Schoolyard bullying by calling them "losers" reveals either A) you are ignorant to what their real motives are or that B) you expect everyone to share the same motives as you, which makes you a dick either way

I was showering back before it was cool.

Is the guy on his knees going for the Oscar or what?

Yeah you know I almost got my MBA the one thing they taught me was in a recession when property values are in the toilet always go after people's houses.

Why doesn't one of those I-phone ironic, greasy Buddy Holly wanna be stick a camera in his face and ask him?

Did your parents have a mortgage? Did they make payments? How many months passed without them making an effort to pay before the big evil bank had no choice but to foreclose on your paren'ts trailer?

I would reply if your comment was at all coherent.

Look we've been knee deep in this whole foreclosure debacle for a while now. I live among the McMansion elite (I don't own one I just live near them). Two years ago - on every news broadcast you'd see couples standing in front of the houses they never could afford..people with MBAs and other advance degrees talking about how they were "duped".

c'mon man - it's simple math. "X" is your monthly income. Y is what you pay out every month. If Y is bigger than X then it's time to reconsider the six bedroom manse and scale back a bit.

But not one of these people ever said, "I fucked up. I lived beyond my means". Not one. It was always the banks fault.

Now this doesn't mean that I don't hold the banks responsible as well. They'd hand  out mortgages to lab rats and chimps if they could get them to sign on the dotted line.

But how could you get duped. What sort of semi-retarded wannabe doesn't take an honest assessment before embarking on the largest investment of his or her life?

Oh and the answers were all the same. "We did it to provide a better life for our2  kids". Really? Really? How does owning a house with six bedrooms no furniture or drapes make for a better life? You mean to tell me that people who livein apartments are somehow worse parents because they don't live in an overpriced, shoddily built, supersized Lil' Rascals clubhouse?

I'm not saying that the guy in the photo didn't have a legitimate axe to grind. But I know a lot of realtors and from what i learned the overwhelming majority of foreclosures happen because the homeowners lived way WAY beyond their means.

Hey - I own a 3 bedroom home in NJ that backs onto a wooded area with a creek. My wife is a stay at home mom. Our son attends Parochial school. Money is tight. but even when i was unemployed for a year we managed to keep our heads above water. This was possible because before we bought a home we decided if my wife was going to stay home, what would happen in case I lost my job, etc. And then we came up with a number and stuck to it. Had we bought a home based on two incomes instead of one I'd be writing this on a borrowed laptop.

 

You really have no idea what the banks were up to did you? The FBI started warning about an epidemic of mortgage fraud on the part of lenders starting in 2004. So did the  guy who headed the investigations into he savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s.
Banks started giving out loans with "less stringent" loan requirement when they ran out of solid mortgages to bundle into CDOs they were selling like hotcakes. Next then got the ratings agencies to stamp AAA on the crap. Some states tried to step in and regulate the subprime lenders but the Feds (GWB's Feds) blocked them. Alan Greenspan gave the entire mess his blessing before congress. The entire corrupt sham would have gone on practically unnoticed if the market hadn't collapsed.

Actually this first started during the Clinton Administration(republican majority in congress) in 1994

http://wallstreetlaw.typepad.c...

The guy was pointing at Bof A, one of 8 banks that have to pay back their borrowers who suffered financial harm due to those banks' "unsafe and unsound" business practices.



And while attorneys general in other states are busy bending over negotiating to give banks wide
immunity for a wide range of "foreclosure irregularities"), our NY AG called BS and is
launching his own investigation into wrongful foreclosures.
 

Obviously youre not afraid of a potential threat of a human bomb walking into the crowd and blowing themselves up. Causing pandemonium and chaos in the street. But all you care about is your commute to work. You can thank the protestors for picking such a great spot to protest. Protesting Wall Street, because Wall Street is playing by the rules that has been set forth for them.

You are really dumb

>Obviously youre not afraid of a potential threat of a human bomb

I'm also not afraid of yetis, the lizard people or rabid tiger attacks during what has been a non-violent peaceful protest either.  

 In fact, even on a bad day, you're about 10,000 times more likely to get flattened by a hipster on a fixie running a red light than you are by your garden variety nyc mad bomber.

You know, Vicky, New York City may not be the best place for a very frightened person like yourself.  Not really a coward's kind of town.

Maybe you're  more of an Oklahoma City type.

They don't commit acts of extreme violence in Oklahoma City. Ever. The bombing in '93 was just a mass hallucination.

So worried about a human bomb?  has that ever happened in NYC?  Sometimes the stories that I hear are from the minds of madmen.  Let's dissolve everyones rights because of the infinite threat of a bomber.  That could happen on ANY day if it were to ever happen.  The point of NYPD at this time is to show force and control.

Okie checking in to hopefully embarrass you for your ill informed comment. Peace.

Ok... outside of simply hoping, how do you envision embarrassing me?

Would it involve some sort of comparison between Oklahoma City and New York City?   The tested mettle of the citizens of each fair city?

I'd hoped my comment/presence would make you reconsider your own inconsiderate comment. That is all.

And what's with the wizard who tok her baby to the protest - in the rain?

Either she's an attention whore looking for something to blog her gritty urban adventure to her friends in Willow dick Falls, Ohio or she's using the kid as insurance against getting arrested.

Wall Street traded my future? How Zoey? Or is it just a convenient target to thumb your nose at you loft loving, rooftop gardening,urban colonist? Maybe I should carry a sign that reads "HIPSTERS PRICED ME OUT OF MY NEIGHBORHOOD?

Geez, you made an awful lot of assumptions from looking at one picture, Sherlock.