OWS did not just happen in your community. It happened across this country, including Denver.
How about the government turn off utilities and back off. If you watch the video, this wasn’t a simple traffic stop. They followed them with swat dressed officers in vans.
Simple traffic stop - oh, gee, one cop, one car, and I violated a traffic regulation.
You are wrong on this, and you know it. Defending this over-reaction by the government just empowers them to be more egregious next time.
Next time it might be you. And where will your defenders be? Remember that.
The only ones I personally witnessed outside of NYC were in KC and Houston.
In KC it was nine people holding banners in the WWI monument parking lot.
In Houston it was about 30 people in Hermann Square - which is muncipal and which seems to always have bums sleeping in it, before and after OWS.
One officer is not going to stop two cars with six people who have all stated publicly that they are armed and ready to resist unless he has substantial backup.
It was a strategic move.