Video: NYPD Uses Pepper Spray, Force On Wall Street Occupiers

get the water hoses and tear gas out

I hope they use pepper spray liberally.
Those on the bridge, they should have over to real new yorkers, they will thrown them off the bridge.
Idiots - go home and get a job.
Blame yourself and stop demanding that you are "entitled" - you are NOT !

and they wonder why we don't trust officers anymore.

Remember this: the police do not exist to protect and serve the entire public. They exist to protect rich people.

Civil disobedience can work, but the people involved must be stronger than the bullies, brutes and bigots they will be up against. They must be willing to face the unhinged violence, pathetic justifications and the callous, vain groupthink of those they are up against.

Remember also that the more money a person has, the less empathy he has. The more comfortable someone is, the less he recognizes the struggle of others. The more power someone has, the less human he is.

You're up against the worst of the worst here: useless, greedy, narcissistic sociopaths who have absolutely no reason to care about anyone but themselves. They are also chickenshits.  They hide because the cops protect them.  Show them you're stronger and they'll piss their pants.


Be strong. Don’t give into them. And don’t let them scare you. Ultimately, underneath everything else, they are empty, damaged cowards. And they know it.

You know what? I've held my tongue long enough, but I am appalled at the behavior that those in charge have inflicted upon this country. Here we have thousands protesting for a change in this country, and as usual, we have dictator Bloomberg's fucking lap dog's trying to put a stop to it. The NYPD are a bunch of fucking pigs, one's who have done shit for this once great nation, who feel it's necessary to put a stop to those they deem "different". These so-called "different" people are the ones who give a fuck. Fuck you, yuppie scum; fuck you evil money hungry corporations who see people as dollar signs; and especially, fuck you Bloomberg, and your fucking lap dog cunt Christine Quinn, you are the scum of New York City, and you have no business being here you heartless SCUM FUCK! You have destroyed NYC, a city I have lived in my whole life, and here you come along, a billionaire, yuppie Boston scum fuck of a human being, and you take away what's ours! Fuck you! and I pray everyday for your death Bloomberg, and rest assured, when you die, I will find your fucking grave and spit and dance all over it you evil heartless Bostonian scum fuck you. Obama, you are also a piece of shit. How the fuck do you expect to win a re election if you are a fucking moron who lied to get his way into office, and once in, had no fucking clue what to do with a fucking lagging economy? I hope you drop dead, also, not because you are heartless, because you're not, but because you're a fucking liar and a Goddamn idiot. This country is rigged! Rigged enough to give the power to the wealthy, and Bloomberg is trying to rid NYC of anyone who makes less than $100,000 a year. I would love nothing more than for someone to kill Bloomberg. You are a scum fuck and I wish for your death everynight. You don't belong here, and why don't you tell us how you bought your way into a third election you heartless, fuck? I hope you drop dead.

Funny, my 24 y/o friend and NYPD police officer told me that the protesters were laying in the street and stopping traffic. For some reason the media missed that part... Pretty interesting how that happens, ain't it?

awesome story, its title could read: 
"Media Completely Ignores Anonymous Commenter's 24-year-old Friend"

sounds like we're brewing the scandal of the 21st century over here!

Cool, I could be famous too like all of you "Non-anonymous" gothamist posters! YAY MY LIFE IS COMPLETE!


Seriously though, get out of the street, you're fucking up my commute to work.

Do you actually drive to work through the financial district, or are you just trying to make a point?

Most in that area are annoyed to high holy hell about the protesters that dont even know who or what they are protesting. Just chanting like retareded parrots. its the "bankers" fault for .. somthing.... ?!?! Give me a break. Go away!

Occasionally, but mainly I use mass transit. I work right next to their 'encampment', I was more just trying to make a point that there are two sides to every story. Most people take media posts (or in this case blog posts and snippets of video) as fact.

poor hippies

In Wisconsin, the cops there knew which side was right. Not the NYPD. I can't think of anyone who has had a positive experience with a cop (except 9/11 I guess).  I haven't. Most people I know haven't. Those who had any experience had negative ones, some very much so. We're not talking criminals, either. It's one of the reasons I will never go back, why my husband commutes 1000 miles. To stay far away from the filth in uniform. That, and the schools suck in NYC, too.

I know plenty of people that received a very good education in NYC schools and I've had both good and bad interactions with NYPD but after reading your screed I understand why your husband chooses to commute 1000 miles

Good to see Anthony V Bologa, 57, of Statten Island has already been identified here as the pepper-spray fanatic.  Good work.  Hopefully he'll be shamed into resignation or fired by NYPD.

funny how easy it is to come to an internet forum and talk shit about protesters...Sad how hard it is for people to stand for a belief in public, so long as it does not ruin their daily routine.

Good.

Deputy Inspector Bologna Should stay behind his desk and nor interact with the public unless its behind his deli counter in staten is

I think we should all realize something very important: that we've reached a moment, an impasse, in US history (perhaps even world history) where any intelligent, well-informed and caring person agrees with the gist (the theory, if you will) of why this protest is important; but at the same time we feel alienated from these protesters, don't trust their fuzzy ideologies and well-rehearsed White American brand of "revolution". Woe is us.

Rosa Luxemburg, "The War and the Workers"-- The Junius Pamphlet (1916)

We're doomed. 

If you think that the cops are on your side, let me tell you: one day that big orange net is going to be closing in around you. But you're likely too dumb to at that moment be able to remember the time you made a comment on Gothamist about how stupid some protestors are for at acting on their principles.

I can still recall the brutality of the 1960's and the arrests due to the protests of the vietnam war, but to see this type of absolute disregard for the rights of American people in today's age, is simply disheartening.  For those of you, who feel the need to criticize or berate these brave Americans, who are actually trying to bring attention to the state of many Americans in today's economic mess, simply shows your lack of concern and involvment in our country.  To those of you, all I can say is "shame on you".  However, be glad that you still have the right to say what you wish about others, because those in these videos are being arrested, beaten and suffocated by pepper spray for doing just that!!  So when the day comes, that you are being arrested for simply making your opinion known, I pray that you remember your comments of today!!  I am an elderly individual, who lost my home when my mortgage company decided to raise my interest rate to almost double what I was paying, bring my payment up by an astounding $683.00 per month.  I can definitely relate to what these people are complaining about, then to watch the crooked mortgage company get billions in bailout monies just prior to closing their doors was a complete sham.  Yet it was all due to our government, just as their throwing bailout monies to many companies that filed bankruptcy shortly after receiving their bailout funds, or the $7 million given to a retired California scientist to study ANTS.  Now, if these bailouts do not anger you, then you are either way to young and still living off your parents, or you are wealthy and don't give a da..., but either way, you unconcern shows just what type of person you are.  Thank God there are those who do care enough to be beaten, arrested and abused all to try to bring attention to this disgrace.

Well said and thank you.

I wonder how many of these idiots actually lost their mortgages.  And if they did (which I highly doubt because most people rent in this city), then why did they feel the need to take a mortgage they couldn't afford???

Nobody pointed a gun at their head and forced them to take out a mortgage.

Some of the cops in those videos are probably idiots who have lost their mortgages. They're just too dumb to realize who's side they should be on here.

Your protests and art degrees don't fucking change a thing.  If any of these people gave a fuck, they'd be trying to become councilmen, oh councilpersons or getting into congress.  Showing up and chanting cute phrases while wearing the latest fashions does dick.

Ah, conservatives doing what conservatives do best: applying broad generalizations in order to marginalize a large, diverse group of people.

I had no idea I was Conservative. Thanks for knowing me better than me, hypocrite.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

So "peaceably assembl(ing)... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is "dick".  I think this was quoted in The Federalist Papers. Or was it "Mein Kampf"?

spot on as usual. protest and civil disobedience NEVER work to change public opinion and create social change. that whole civil rights movement was caused by those in political office. 

way to think it through, genius.

Yeah and that was the last time it worked. It hasn't done shit since, except get some dopey rich kids pepper sprayed. That was a different time. The U.S. has changed and so should the protesters.

um, where have you been living? you're exposing your complete and utter ignorance of contemporary events, dumbass. the spirit of protest is alive and well across the United States. to name a recent few:

--protests were a large part of what propelled the Tea Party into office. 
--Wisconsin protests brought attention to the pros and cons of collective bargaining.
--Proposition 8 protests were large and influential on both sides of the debate.
--protest played a large part in passing marriage equality in NYS

its not about which side wins. when people exercise free speech it is healthy for democracy.

Exactly, so protesting doesn't do shit. My point exactly.

exactly, you have no point.

Except that protests are horseshit.

...especially your whiny protest against protests.

Haha, touche. That was a good one.

Try telling that to the protesters in Egypt and Tunisia. They'd probably beat your punk ass down, though. You entitled, brainwashed coward.

I'll tell it to people who can read, cunt. I wrote, "The U.S. has changed." Didn't say Egypt, Tunisia or the world. Our country is vastly different from those, which is why protests don't work here. The entitled ones are the protesters who think their views are so incredible, that standing around chanting will affect some sort of change.

The protesters have the balls to get off their asses and do something.  The dumb cunts are people like you who just sit there and accept getting fucked up the ass by these Wall St criminals.

protest and civil disobedience NEVER work to change public opinion and create social change

So wait, just what happened in Egypt then?

please change the batteries in your sarcasm detector and/or pay attention. thanks!

I'd love to see the rich kid rebels who post here serve one fucking day as an NYPD cop.

Cops do protect and serve the community.
But that being said, there has to be something a
little sick about wanting to be a cop and being a cop.
Attacking people for protesting is wrong.
COPS are being fired all over the country,
their pensions are being slashed.
Do Cops think they are immune from them these
Wall Street Thieves?

What do the NYPD pensions have to do with Wall Street. It's they city's fault that's happening. It's an issue with local government, not Wall Street. As for my view on cops, I don't care about you or your opinion, given your comments on how "sick" one has to be to become a cop.

"What do the NYPD pensions have to do with Wall Street."
Go look that up, dude.  There's a direct line between the two.  

Start with "how pensions work" and then move on to "pension investments" and finally "Wall Street effect on public pensions."

That's cute and all, but they're not the ones cutting pensions.

Seriously, Chucky, just go look it up.  It's important that people understand how the system works.  

Wall Street dips directly cause pension fund losses:  when the value of the market goes down, so does the value of the pension's investments, therefore payments to pensioners get cut because the fund can't pay out money it no longer has.

I understand how it works and in this particular situation, Bloomberg is the asshole, not Wall Street. Why is Wall Street to blame? They aren't the ones who created the system. They're going to work, not being evil and fucking over the NYPD. These protesters don't really give a shit about the NYPD, they're just skewing a topic in their favor in an attempt to not get arrested.

nicely done!

Oh my word, the pepper spray video is hysterical.  Shut them up pretty quickly!

Bitter angry virigin is going to die a bitter angry virigin.

there is a word for human trash like yourself who get off on the suffering of others: sadist. 

your mom must be proud, you degenerate bastard.

This is Corporate Fascist Marie Antoinette Bloomberg's answer to the peoples' legal occupation the cops are brutal because they're told to be brutal.  Bloomberg did the same thing during the Republican Convention.  He's a nazi in lace panties.

Nazi comparison #2. Yay for you!

Aljazeera Video - The Men Who Crashed The World.

A four-part investigation into a world of greedand recklessness that led to financial collapse.Explains what happened.These cops are protecting the thieves that stole their pensions.

stupid fucking cops ... you'd think they'd understand that their damned pensions have been gutted thanks to these thieving banksters.  and you can bet that more than a few cops are in foreclosure or deeply underwater.  but then i suppose the politics of it doesn't even factor when they have an opportunity to kick some ass and push people around...

Bloomberg was right:  There are riots. The police are rioting.

under-compensated young people with college degrees, to paraphrase him more specifically.

I'm pretty sure it didn't originate at Wellesley or any other top tier university you protesters came from.

Don't appropriate other cultures for your benfit.

That chip on your shoulder must be really heavy, buddy.

"Don't appropriate other cultures for your benfit"
I like how you drove the whole literal definition of ignorance thing home by misspelling the last word.

lame

NYPD is the only police organization in the world that knows how to control crowds. PD in Europe stand around and watch people riot. LA? Seattle? Nobody knows how except NYPD. The video of the girls on the ground crying is hilarious.

Hosni Mubarak, is that you?

"The video of the girls on the ground crying is hilarious."

congratulations, you're a piece of shit. well done.

Bullshit. The protesters explicitly stated that they will keep non violent not matter how bad NYPD tries to provoke, which they did in this case. This could have turned the other way pretty fast if the the crowd had decided to turn on the cops. There's a reason why NYPD didn't come out in riot gear since they knew the protests are primarily peaceful so they tried to goad them at random to see if they could elicit a response.

Seriously, yeah.  The crowds could have easily turned, chased that piece of shit cop down, and stomped his skull.  But that would be Wrong.  Instead, let the justice system work and if it Bloomberg ignores this and refuses to launch an investigation, then vote him out.

Sure it's hilarious. The FBI isn't so enamored of the NYPD's vaunted crowd control as you are, that's why they conducted a criminal civil rights
investigation into the NYPD's arrest of
protesters during the GOP National Convention.

and what happened with that hippy??

Innocent Americans being peppersprayed is hilarious to you? Man, you are seriously fucked up.

I'm sick of the NYPD protecting the NYPD even when video evidence of obvious police brutality/cruelty is allover the internet for the world to see. The officer in the white shirt that casually walks up to that group of women protesting on the sidewalk and blasts them in the face w/mace needs to be fired. I hope people find out who he is and make his life pure hell. FUCK THE NYPD!!!!!

Spraying his daughters in the face with pepperspray would not be inappropriate.

as the largest, most well-funded police force in the nation i'm convinced that the NYPD still has no fucking clue how to handle crowds. their leadership and lack of accountability is a disgrace. 

we pay their bloated salaries and pensions in addition to the endless lawsuits from this heavy-handed neanderthal bumbling and outright assault. somewhere along the line the NYPD forgot that they are our employees.

we've got video recording in the palm of our hands. now we've got to demand justice.

First they came for my nieghbor......  They will find out soon enough that they were wrong but by then it will be to late for us all. These kids out there in the trenches getting thier heads busted are HEROES

good fer nothing hippies libtards from taxaxhussetts out on a holiday to terrorize our fair city. this is ney york BABY we dont take kindly to your TYPES round here (no libs no hippie mamas no negros) get back to your ghettos in ohio and let the GROWN UP MEN take care of BUISNESS !

Um, this is New York City, plebian. Not your shithole hometown. We take kindly to everyone, except illiterate bigots. Please don't purport to represent the city of my birth.

LOL! "Tony" has got to be the white shirts beating people up!

you mean white sheets right?

"I'm a troll, ask me how!"

I don't see the cops doing anything other than trying to keep the peace.

If by "keep the peace" you mean "macing unarmed innocent bystanders on a sidewalk", you'd be correct, but I would suggest "Eubonics for Douchbags" to brush up on your English skills.

Huh? What videos are you watching? The cops are the aggressors here.

willful ignorance is bliss, sure, but trying to broadcast it over the internet is just stupid.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of
grievances.

It's called the First Amendment.

Thank you. It seems like most of these right-wing morons have never read the Constitution. All they're good at is calling people "hippies" and screaming "Gawd bless Uhmerricuh".

I need a dramamine after watching these videos...

yeah well those hipster got them iPhones out for this stuff but never seem to catch the driver running the red light to cut them off in the bike lane that they claims happens 23 times a day.  Least they could do is hold the phone in landscape mode instead of portrait.

Should have used bullets on these vermin filth.

Looking for some attention with that comment?

Can someone please organize a homecoming day at Oberlin so all these douchebags have a reason to leave NYC?

No shit, when are these idiots going to go home and shower.  I love how they provoke the cops that are trying to keep the peace then cry - big government out of control.  No assholes, this is the PD's job, to keep the peace and protect law abiding citizens.

Actually, the NYPD's job is not to intimidate, harass and physically abuse people exercising their constitutional rights. Their ONLY jobs are to (1) be on the lookout for crimes in progress and (2) to investigate crimes after the fact and apprehend perpetrators. That's it.

So nice of you to defend the poor innocent Wall Street. You are such a wonderful person!

This is what happens when the wealthiest people in the world DESTROY a nation's economy and then demand that everybody ELSE pay to fix it while they walk away from their own wreckage with their pockets stuffed.

If this was a Tea Party Protest, FOX would be covering it 24/7, and the behavior of those cops would be held up as proof of Big Government Out Of Control.

But heck, it's just the abuse of people perceived as "liberals" so the "Tea Party" hypocrites are on the SIDE of the Big Government Out Of Control.

If this were a Tea Party protest it would be more than a bunch of rowdy, unemployed hippies.

Yes, it would instead be a bunch of lethargic, overweight, unemployed seniors who collect Social Security. Funny how the Tea Party rants for smaller government and less welfare but they suck on the government's teat more than anyone in this society.

You should pass though. Its very hard to make that claim if you pass through the square.

I passed through the park last Saturday.  Everyone was behaving and nobody got arrested.  Cops treat you like you treat them.