Posted on 02/27/2017 7:41:43 AM PST by simpson96
protest against President Donald Trump at New Haven City Hall on Saturday ended with pepper spray, police dogs and two arrests.
After congregating at 3 p.m. to hear speeches, about 200 protesters marched across Route 34, creating a human barricade to block traffic. State police officers then threatened to arrest them if they did not clear the area.
Although many attendees began to disperse or watched from the sideline, at least 50 people remained in the street for approximately half an hour. Protesters moved out of the street by 4:50 p.m. and began to march back to City Hall, followed by more than a dozen New Haven and state police officers.
When protesters reached the corner of Church and Chapel streets, police chased them out of the street and took three men into custody.
When we started retreating to go back to City Hall and finish the rally, [the police] became violent, said Alejandra Campos 19, a protest attendee. They literally grabbed me and pushed me. They had one police officer that was very threatening. He was threatening people with his attack dog.
She said a man next to her was arrested by the police and pushed to the ground and, in her panic, she was not sure whether to try to assist him or to get away. Campos said she did not understand why the police began to escalate force and use pepper spray on nonviolent protesters. (snip)
Norman Clement, an activist with ANSWER Coalition, has four charges against him, including inciting a riot, Kane said. He was released on a $5,000 surety bond, Kane added.
Police arrested Clement on Chapel Street outside the dollar store. After his arrest, he was surrounded by more than 10 police officers, who would not let Kane or other protesters come near him.
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ANSWER scum, Norman Clement.
LOL. Uh, yeah, right. You were just minding your own business, "retreating" and all the sudden, the police became violent.
Jeez!
The auditions for The Walking Dead are across town, dude!
There’s your hero, liberals...*ROFL* Real fine, upstanding looking gentleman....
“Obviously, a Yale man.”
Thurston Howell III
Is it just me, or is that Norman Clement in the news frequently? Thought I saw his pic from another protest not long ago?
Gees, this guy might want to stop protesting. It looks like he’s been pepper sprayed enough over the years.
If I ever get a mug shot.... I’m going to smile and look like I won the lottery.
Looking sad or neutral...just doesn’t say.... I’m guilty and glad I did it!
As they say, “You end up with the face you deserve.”
Time for Congress to pass a law that makes anyone or any group that blocks a highway built or maintained by federal tax $’s a severe criminal violation.
A criminal violation that endangers those trying to legally travel on the highway.
Then, add on a violation of the drivers’s and passengers’s civil rights to drive/ride on roads without acts of terrorisms/blocking of the highways.
If the protesters were paid, arrest and charge those who paid and recruited the protesters with the above federal charges.
In the meantime, any city that does not protect drivers/riders from these road terrorists, loses all federal funds until they stop these acts of terrorism.
The link below describes the terrorist activity this scumbag did and how he was arrested.
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/02/connecticut_police_arrest_prot.html
Two jokes come to mind— “You can tell a Harvard man, but you can’t tell him much”
And Harvard vs. Yale at 1/2 time football game in the men’s room..... Yaley pi@@ing next to hahvahd dude who runs after him saying “Couldn’t help but notice you didn’t wash your hands after you urinate, at hahvahd they teach us to wash our hands after we urinate. Yaley says— “at Yale they teach us not to pi@@ on our hands”.
Nothing quite like the elite self-impressed superiority toots.
>at least 50 people remained in the street for approximately half an hour.
Those 50 should have been surrounded, arrested and jailed.
Ha! My former wife, an MIT grad, used to wear a shirt with the words “Better dead than crimson.”
Since he's probably never had a real job in his life and has paid zero into Social Security, this may be his retirement plan.
At the age of 66: get arrested a lot, do life on the installment plan from here on in, be assured of 3 hots and a flop until he dies, courtesy of the prison system.
He's a genius, he thinks ahead. :-)
The face of liberalism, writ large. Wow, this guy looks like he belongs on a Hoarders episode
The face of liberalism, writ large. Wow, this guy looks like he belongs on a Hoarders episode
“Campos said she did not understand why the police began to escalate force and use pepper spray on nonviolent protesters.”
I’m sure fears of a police ambush had nothing to do with how the officer acted /sarc
Ya ever get the feeling that some of these guys might be desperate or crazy enough to be doing this for money? If so, infiltrate them and find out who’s paying..I think inciting a riot is a crime...no?
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