The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
Posted on 11/19/2011 2:52:50 PM PST by NetLiberty
A non-violent protest at UC Davis turned chaotic Friday afternoon as police pepper-sprayed a group of students sitting on the ground. Videos shot at the scene show a policeman walking up to the protesters, pulling out his can of pepper spray to display to the crowd, and liberally sweeping the protesters with the stinging substance. Many students had their heads down, but at least one demonstrator was hit in the face. Other officers then followed suit, spraying many of the Occupiers who appeared to be sitting in a circle with their arms linked. By midday Saturday, videos of the showdown were circulating the Internet.
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Don't care who the protestors are--I take a back seat to no one here on conservative principles.
We have reached a new low in the relationship between peaceful protest and the state when police feel they can spray peaceful protestors like insects.
Again, I don't give a crap about some of their views, but this is just plain wrong.
The real question is whether the police were union members. If so, it is the union's fault.
1. What are they blocking?
2. How many times have they been told to move?
Nobody has more “rights” than others. If your “peaceful” protest is blocking something the public has a legitimate right to use - personally I'd turn loose the K-9s.
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furor??
The one man I saw “bloodied” had literally attacked a cop and he was being held up as the face of OWS.
ridiculous.
OWS is nothing more than the brownshirts of the Obama regime. They have been shaking down contributions for Obama 2012 and their next target is Congress. They will spend millions to bus their activists to DC.
I like the insects part.
At the rate we’re going, tickling them with feathers will be considered “brutality”.
OWS never even had a permit. They were trespassers. They should have been shot on the second day.
Get over it! These kids do not run our lives. The dont even produce one single thing we buy or sell.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarters Expenses?
“Don’t know about all of you, but this is excessive and unnecessary police brutality.”
So when they do the same thing, next time blocking a highway, we look the other way? And you can bet your life they will escalate once they smell blood.
So what’s your solution? Perhaps they have the right to block certain right of ways, but not others?
The OWS crowd are just privileged pukes who think they can get their way in all things by staging temper tantrums in public. So long as they remain "non-violent" (so they think) they will always win every confrontation, and they will always be morally superior, and their movement toward a socialist paradise will be unstoppable.
Maybe they should think again.
First the videos never show what happened before, they also never have sound that is clear. So you don’t know if they were told to leave.
If you want to protest, you need to accept the consequences of over staying your welcome.
Oh, yea and that you qualify these protesters as peaceful is laughable.
Effect is the right word. The cops too are probably Dims and union members who earn 500K a year and will get 550K a year in retirement benefits for the rest of their lives when they retire at 50. So why wouldn't they help out OWS by creating a video for effect?
From the video I saw of this on FNC this morning, the “pepper spray” didn’t seem to bother them much. The fleabaggers acted as though they were being sprayed with a water bottle. Just my observation. “Stinging” normally gets some type of a reaction.
Is that young guy with BIGHT red blood on his face? If its the picture I saw, I was like what? Blood isn’t bright red (it was almost florescent red) after a very short time, it just looked fake.
“Videos shot at the scene show a policeman walking up to the protesters, pulling out his can of pepper spray to display to the crowd, and liberally sweeping the protesters with the stinging substance.”
yes-
i’m sure this is exactly the way it happened /s...nothing was thrown at the police...the demonstrators were not told by the police to move or were not on the wrong side of the police line...the cops just went up and sprayed them...
So, the big bad cops just walked up to innocent protesters and sprayed them with pepper spray for the heck of it, because the cops are such bullies.
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