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Someone pointed this one out in another thread
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?...
ABC News reporter shoved into street and arrested, cuffed.
Did they import Chicago cops?
Jeebus!
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“I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat.” - Will Rogers
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“I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat.” - Will Rogers
On the 16th street mall, where everyone goes to eat,
there are 10 cops at least at every intersection, in puttees like SWAT, many with helmets. The bike cops keep moving, but they're not Officer Friendly -- they're keeping on the move to spot any protester mischief. The DPD has doubled in size, and that's not including state, federal and private forces (including the army of security men blocking entrance to all the lobbyist parties).
The march from Denver Coliseum to downtown by vets and concertgoers was huge, but as with all of the marches so far, they dissipate as soon as the youth need to go and find a drink. They pick on Code Pink instead because these gals actually get the job done; they disrupt gatherings, get press, get their message out instead of carrying lame signs like 'stop the bad things'.
I still wonder at the foolishness of the orgs in protesting here; they may think they're sharpening up their tactics, but they're also providing free research to law enforcement nationwide for the RNC.
Not right, not right
Not right.
Sass a cop, get a smackdown
Some folks are slow learners. Miss Horizontal Stripes challenged the cop to "Fucking do it again!" and so he did, with emphasis. Then she got arrested. I always took those to be a badge of honor, but now I guess we are supposed to feel pity. Mr. Big Shot Newsy was told to move along, don't know why but if he had a good reason to stay where he was why did they edit the clip? He sassed the cop and bought a ticket to the pokey; I'd be shocked if it had gone otherwise.
Generally speaking, a pretty lame effort after all the talk. Where are the sitdowns, people chained together blocking traffic? Where are the skydivers with smoke streamers parachuting into the front of the Pepsi Center? Where are the soapsuds and red dye in the fountains? Lame, lame, lame; no wonder the radical Left gets no respect.
who cares what they said
Does it matter if she said, "Don't fucking do it again" or "Fucking do it again and knock me out".
Does what she said justify a baton to the face? And you are wrong, she did NOT sass off to Mr. Po-po and get a cuppa-well-deserved-smackdown-and-arrest. She was assaulted by a cop who said "mooooove". And then she was left alone on the ground. They did not drag her off the street because it was an emergency and they had to clear the road. They did not arrest her because she did not move. The did not arrest her because they professionally worked their way up the force spectrum and arrived upon hit-her-in-the-fucking-face.
She was allowed to sit there, without questions from the cops, or a lecture, or being detained. She then got up and they arrested her later to prevent a lawsuit.
BIO, you know this kind of violence against the public for no reason is unwarranted and just done to escalate things.
They clearly did not have to assault her. They usually form a wall of officers and move people away. Tell me in ANY way how this is justified in the force spectrum to control a situation or suspect. Why is this acceptable because they are dirty liberal protesters??? What is this was a crowd at Coors Stadium for a baseball game? Then it is cool?
He was on the public sidewalk alongside the Brown Palace
Hotel, sir.
Since it happened to a Villager, they actually reported it fully:
http://tinyurl.com/5dj4t8
As for the sitdowns and chaining, well, the DPD prohibited any tools that would allow such traffic stoppages from being carried by anyone; people get arrested before they can put anything together.
"The ordinance makes it illegal to carry certain items, such as chains, padlocks, carabiners and other locking devices. It also prohibits the possession of noxious substances. Two of the most frequently used examples of a noxious substance are a bucket of urine
and a "feces bomb."
Police have to prove that people carrying such items intend to use them to block public access or emergency equipment or to thwart crowd control measures."
http://tinyurl.com/69ece3
the reports I'm reading
have it that the sidewalk is hotel property, as I remembered it being. The deal is that downtown businesses own the sidewalk, while the city gets an easement for repairs and underground utility access and the public get an easement for right of transit only. The purpose is to restrict panhandling and and vagrancy, debate the correctness as you will but that's the law.
The hotel swore out a complaint for trespass, the producer and crew were told numerous times they were trespassing, that a complaint had been taken out against them, that they had to move it along or they would be arrested. The producer, as seen, sassed back, eventually the cops had had enough and then you see what happened on the truncated tape that ABC released.
Cops are only human, and you can only push them so far. Seldom a good idea to do that, push them when you're in the wrong, nor is it a good idea in general as a way to treat anyone, but if you choose to do so then the consequences shouldn't be a big surprise.
Yeah, Rodney King was asking for it too
How dare those people not obey authority!
They're lucky those fine men in uniform didn't just shoot them.
Off with their heads!
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Was Rodney King at the Convention?
I missed that.
These people did not obey the law. That will often get you arrested, just a hint for future reference.
Some people choose to deliberately break the law, risking arrest in order to make a point. Hasn't been much of that this time, some marching around and chanting but very little true civil disobedience. That may be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your point of view, but there haven't been any mass arrests like '04 and certainly nothing like '68, so those with an agenda of Damn The Cops are reduced to focusing on a small number of incidents - like these two.
Bad news for those seeking examples of rampant police state oppression, both of them discussed here involved breaking the law and mouthing off to the cops. I'm the last one to oppose civil disobedience, but when you set out to deliberately break the law then you are courting arrest and have to accept that risk; it is irrational to deliberately break the law and expect to get nothing but a pat on the head. Even more irrational is expecting to be able to mouth off without consequence to cops who are doing their duty; they won't put up with it, nor should they.
If you're advocating anarchy, just step up and do so; don't try and hide behind these lame excuses for cop-hating and authority-hating. If, on the other hand, you think law-breaking and getting arrested and being manhandled in the process after mouthing off is some sort of evidence of police-state brutality, you are sorely disconnected from any concept of civilized behavior and certainly completely unaware of what police brutality and authoritarian rule are really like.
Pitiful, really. Both the lack of co-ordinated meaningful protest and this whining about self-inflicted consequence.
I'll bet there was a lot of meaningful protest in the...
Free-speech cells.
It is a private party
and the property rented out for it includes the surrounding parking lots.
The Dems have every right to restrict who gets to be at their party, just as you and I would want to be able to restrict our own guest lists. There isn't anything evil about that.
Still remaining, however, is the entire city of Denver. Lots of opportunity to disrupt and confront and make headlines and gain attention if anyone were so inclined, so I haven't much sympathy for whining that the Dems didn't make it easy to disrupt their private event. Why should they?
An interesting comparitor: Why is it correct to restrict critical demonstrators away from the entrance to abortion clinics (and we all here agree that it is, yes?) but not considered correct to restrict critical demonstrators away from the equally private functions at the leased Democratic Convention facility?
it's all just so silly and uncoordinated, but i guess fun too
more protest vids here.
there are ~100 or so in the 'related video' column, have fun/try not to puke.