what a sap

Here is one of my contributions to the movement.... so far. Pass it along.

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

Worth watching... subscribe if you like it.

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if its fake. it could be with
the instruction of police some pro wall street criminals may have done
it to give a bad name to genuine protestors.

Yes!!!! A double-reverse-psychology-black-ops event!

While you're Googling, Google "National Lawyers Guild" and "Communist Party". Now, I'm not saying anything negative about communism, after all, Whoopie Goldberg and Rosie O'Donnell have said that Communism is really a good system. 

Maybe this is what Hillary and Barack meant when they gave the reset button to Russia in their first few months in office!

This is an outrageous video.  There have been plenty of protests in NYC (most with permits) that did not involve numerous arrests because people protested, expressed their opinions, and obeyed police orders.  When people bait police, like the imbecile in this video, or disregard their orders, they get arrested.  For good reason-- you're obstructing the cop's ability to perform his job, which is keeping your lunatic ass safe.  If I was a cop, and a fool was planting himself below my own slow-moving-to-parked vehicle, in the middle of the street and amidst a crowd of unruly people, I would arrest him too-- for my safety and his.  What people keep calling violence and brutality in these videos-- cops pinning people and slapping cuffs on them, and yes, hitting them with a stick if they are being kicked at or struck-- is cops quickly getting a person under control before they really hurt themselves or others.  They want to get it done as quickly and safely as possible.  

Have there been excesses of force?  Yes-  that video of the penned protesters being pepper sprayed is the best example I've seen.  Even if they were yelling obscenities at the cops, that was still an unwarranted use of pepper spay because pepper spray should not be used at less than 3 feet, nor to conduct crowd control, according to the NYPD's own paper on pepper spray use (available online).  That cop should be severely sanctioned for risking someone's health and for giving the NYPD terrible publicity that will make all cops' jobs harder.

But in almost all the videos I've seen, like this one, people are disobeying police orders, people are attempting to cross police barricades, people are physically engaging officers, people are walking in traffic in roads that have not been shut down for the purpose of a rally.  These people should (and I think many do, despite their protests for the cameras) expect to get arrested.  A crowd can go from merely unruly to dangerous quickly.  Cops need to shut it down before it gets to dangerous levels of they haven't upheld their duty to protect the public-- and sometimes arrest is the most expedient way to do that if people decide police orders to "stay back" don't apply to them. 

The other thing I see in these videos is the arrest-- but not what lead up to it.  The first video on this page, of the guy yelling at the cop who pins him against the wall to arrest him, and then flings the guy to the ground when he starts turning around to yell at the cop, is a good example.  If you notice, the cop follows the people at very close range into the frame as the video starts immediately before physically grabbing the guy.  Why did the cop follow them as they were quickly walking up the sidewalk toward the police barricade in the street?  We don't know because the video doesn't show us.  Could they have been resisting arrest or disobeying police orders?  Could be-- we don't see what lead up to this.  I'm tired of commentators assuming nothing preceded the start of videos like this.  Most cops I know don't get themselves into arrest situations for kicks-- they could get injured, things could go wrong...  it's not without risk to themselves.  Cops are charged with keeping order, so don't prevent them from doing so.  I've been to many a protest, and most people treat cops with respect, but there are those who feel laws don't apply to them, and because they "pay cops' salaries" they have a right to obstruct their ability to do their job. I am quite happy when these dopes get familiarized with handcuffs.   

Being courteous to cops is helpful in avoiding arrest, but not being a jackass that endangers themselves and others in the first place is best.   Sorry for the rant, but I am just so tired of people thinking that cops are evil.  Only a biased belief like that could drive someone to see any evidence of police wrongdoing in this video.  It's ridiculous.  Are there bad cops out there?  Yes.  But videos like these and the people who yell "police brutality" when they see them are obscuring true instances of wrongdoing in a morass of unwarranted bias against the police.  I want to apologize to all the good cops out there doing their job on behalf of my fellow ignorant citizens.  

I also wish that this protest had more publicity about its (many) laudable aims and less about arrest counts and fraudulent charges of police violence.  You're missing the point people-- this is a war against business practices and government policies that are strangling this country, not a war of citizens against the police!

THEY are trying to push law enforcement into a confrontation, they want them to over react, all it will take is one officer making a bad decision, then it's on camera.  Then the protesting and the media will use that one incident to loop over and over again on the nightly news stations.  It's as though they are trying to recreate the protests from the Civil Rights movement.  THIS IS NOT 1960 and those ARE NOT fellow citizens. 

Well played sir!

He should be disbarred for that stunt.

If you get the chance to see more video of this day, protestors were in the street and were being told to gt out of the street by the police, some of them confronted the police and tried to knock them off their bikes...I am sorry you have a riht to a peaceful assembly , you have a right to protest but you do not have the right to break the law and try to hurt another human being police officer or not!

Come on...this kind of staging will only hurt the whole occupy movement.

Any word today? Was he even injured?

The Mayor is going to get ownership of this event, he should have stopped it weeks ago. 

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

That's a chaotic scene.
Whatever happened to police on horses for crowd control? Scooters are an awful idea.

i first heard this report on the radio, while driving today, so there was of course no accompanying video.  even from the audio itself i felt like this guy's screaming sounded disingenuous.  for the record,  i'm not at all anti-OWS, i'm just hoping they trim away the theatrics and folly, they can't afford this kind of thing.  

I was--and am--a supporter of OWS, but a few more of these bullshit incidents and that's over.
If I hear another person talk about the NYPD as "pigs", or rant about the "Zionists" or any other Fascist left bullshit, I'm outta here. 

Total fake by the legal entrapper, err, I mean lawyer. I've seen many injuries through seven years on the football field. Numerous broken bones, one sticking out of an 18 yr old's leg. Not a one of them screamed bloody murder and thrashed around like this clown.

His performance is like a porn star that gets in weird positions so the camera has the best angle on the action. He continues to lay back twisting all around, kicking his free leg, but the other stays tight up against the wheel even long after the cop is off the bike. There's hard no fricking weight on those things, and he's screaming like his hand is in a wood-chipper.

The first natural, instinctive reaction to pain is to pull your foot back, yet his foot is first up 'next' to the front tire, then, though the scrooter is barely moving, then it's wedge in front of the back tire. With several feet of space between the tires. Any truly injured person would have bent their knees and pull their feet back quickly and violently, reaching for the pain. He's laying back putting on a show trying to keep his foot up close to the tire.

I also hear that there were no violent incidents during the march that night until that incident broke up the non-violence, sparking other arrests. You can hear the violent reaction of all the crowd as they rush up and one after the other are told, without seeing it themself, how the cop hit the guy and ran over him. The other arrests and problems are on that lawyer's head.

Also, at one point, about :26, you can see an angle to see what was in front of the cops on the street. Almost no one. The cameraman and walkers were on the near and far sideways. The lawyer either was standing clear out in the middle of the road hoping to cause this alone, or he quickly moved in from the side to make it happen.

He got caught up in the moment and did a stupid, dishonest thing. "Anything for an agenda" I supposed, but it's nothing but a performance. It could have led to even worse violence, people getting really hurt, or cops getting hurt. The lawyer should be ashamed of himself. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and he cause trouble and it could have been much worse.

He runs a risk of being disbarred if (a) he really staged it (and I totally think he did), and (b) tries to make any money based on fraud. You think student loans are a problem now, try paying them after you are disbarred.