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Man Arrested for Breaking EMT's Leg at Occupy Wall Street
NBC New York ^ | Nov.10, 2011 | Melissa Russo and Shimon Prokupecz

Posted on 11/10/2011 12:19:45 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

A man has been arrested for allegedly attacking a paramedic and breaking his leg at the Occupy Wall Street site Wednesday night.

Police say paramedics were called to Zuccotti Park for a man who was acting irrationally.

When they arrived, the man in question appeared to be in emotional distress and police decided he needed to be taken to the hospital. But he refused to be placed in the ambulance and pushed one of the EMTs into a ladder, fracturing the EMT's leg.

The man is being charged with assault.

Earlier in the day, Mayor Bloomberg defended the protesters as law-abiding folks who keep to themselves and don't cause trouble.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: assault; emt; ows; zuccotti

1 posted on 11/10/2011 12:19:47 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, how’s that occupying thing going?

Geesh.


2 posted on 11/10/2011 12:21:19 PM PST by RexBeach (There is no such thing as a good tax - Winston Churchill)
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To: RexBeach

Bloomberg is a fool.


3 posted on 11/10/2011 12:22:22 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Mayor Bloomberg defended the protesters as law-abiding folks who keep to themselves and don't cause trouble.

Bloomberg also supposts Hitler's Brown Shirts.

4 posted on 11/10/2011 12:23:17 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This EMT is going to have a great lawsuit against Bloomberg & NYC.


5 posted on 11/10/2011 12:24:17 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Police say paramedics were called to Zuccotti Park for a man who was acting irrationally."

That could be every person in the park.
6 posted on 11/10/2011 12:24:54 PM PST by Cherokee Conservative (If a tree falls over in the woods, and then snaps back upright as a joke, do the squirrels laugh?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Thanks for bringing back the 70s, again, Bloomberg! I’ll have to get my chastity belt out of the drawer before I venture out on the mean streets again.


7 posted on 11/10/2011 12:25:21 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Let's have a Cain Mutiny!)
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To: All

Exactly like the tea party, except for all the overdosing, rapes, robbery, assault, arrests, human waste and begging.. they’re exactly like the tea party, especially how they want the government to take stuff from everyone else and give it to them.

Yea, just like..


8 posted on 11/10/2011 12:25:42 PM PST by newnhdad
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This “Occupy” BS has been going on long enough. Time for wood shampoos and sidewalk sandwiches.

Clear out the vermin...NOW.


9 posted on 11/10/2011 12:35:14 PM PST by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

All of these “occupys” are doing nothing but enabling leftist violence. STOP IT!


10 posted on 11/10/2011 12:43:41 PM PST by toddausauras
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To: ridesthemiles

There are three observations here. First, the EMT has likely a dozen lawyers at his bedside today and is grinning from ear to ear. The minimum he can probably get is $5 million. Second, Bloomberg now has to worry about the next cop or EMT to get injured in such a mess related to Occupy. Ten guys? $50 million or more. You don’t need this kind of threat over the city’s budget plan. Third....you can figure this many weeks into the “fest” and lots of great drugs going around now....with plenty of folks getting doped up and high. I would imagine an average of thirty calls a week from this point on with folks in some drug binge and attacking folks. If any of them bring harm to a cop....there will be a different perception of the threat.

Bottom line....nothing good much can come out of the Occupy New York episode.


11 posted on 11/10/2011 12:44:59 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Interesting. Thanks for posting.


12 posted on 11/10/2011 12:45:20 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Cherokee Conservative

Yeah. My first thought was to wonder how the medics figured out which whackjob they were supposed to help.


13 posted on 11/10/2011 12:45:26 PM PST by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"the man in question appeared to be in emotional distress and police decided he needed to be taken to the hospital"

Then the popos should'a taken him downtown to their place. Having the gov't "Health Care" folks hauling people in against their will is troubling. They used to do that in the Soviet Union.

14 posted on 11/10/2011 12:45:28 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Free ThinkerNY

He is not worried. He knows than Bloomberg will get him turned loose.


15 posted on 11/10/2011 12:48:31 PM PST by sport
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

He supports them also.


16 posted on 11/10/2011 12:49:26 PM PST by sport
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To: miss marmelstein

You also need to have a couple of other friends as well. Al Buck should be one.


17 posted on 11/10/2011 12:50:56 PM PST by sport
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Bloomberg is like the scientist at the end of “The Thing” who tries to reason with The Thing and extends a hand of friendship. The Thing swipes him away with a vicious backhand and moves on to try the others.


18 posted on 11/10/2011 12:55:07 PM PST by Inwoodian
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Earlier in the day, Mayor Bloomberg defended the protesters as law-abiding folks who keep to themselves and don't cause trouble.

Evidently Bloomberg was using a heretofore-unknown definition of "law-abiding folks who keep to themselves and don't cause trouble", meaning "law-breaking idiots who intentionally get in your face and cause trouble".

19 posted on 11/10/2011 1:09:07 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The EMT should sue OWS for every last nickel in their evil Wells Fargo account.


20 posted on 11/10/2011 1:38:15 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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