More than 700 arrested from Occupy Wall Street Protests today

[InRareForm]

per Reuters.

[Wild Cobra]

Stupid fools just don't know how to respect the law.

[InRareForm]

But if it's worth getting media attention, I don't think they are fools entirely.

[4>0rings]

Stupid fools just don't know how to respect the law.
The colonialists didn't respect the laws either.

[Trainwreck2100]

Stupid fools just don't know how to respect the law.

you know who else didn't respect the law, the tea party.






the og tea party not the one we have now

[InRareForm]

This occupywallstreet has no direct leader or description, but in a sense has the mold of a "better tea party movement".

[ElNono]

Stupid fools just don't know how to respect the law.

Sounds like the bankers that left a gazillion families without a home. When are those guys getting arrested?

[ElNono]

tbh, Police needs to learn that actions like this actually enhance and promotes the protest. It's the Streisand effect.

[Capt Bringdown]

tbh, Police needs to learn that actions like this actually enhance and promotes the protest.

Perhaps, but background checks by potential employers and landlords is not something that previous generations of activists had to deal with.
Mass arrests can have a chilling effect on the exercise of the right to general assembly, furthermore, I believe that's what this police action was intended to do.

[greyforest]

Stupid fools just don't know how to respect the law.

Exactly. I don't know why we gave MLK a national holiday...the guy was a criminal and constantly talked about breaking laws and injustice.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Was there any violence or threats of violence?

If not, i am down witha bit of civil disobedience. Oh and WC, Gahndi says go fuck yourself.

[Trainwreck2100]

Exactly. I don't know why we gave MLK a national holiday...the guy was a criminal and constantly talked about breaking laws and injustice.

its possible he had the right permits for his speeches

[FuzzyLumpkins]

its possible he had the right permits for his speeches

Not in Birmingham.

[Trainwreck2100]

Not in Birmingham.

facetious

[Nbadan]

Looks like someone is not liking these growing protests too much..

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/308054_10150309864546130_305135551129_7928030_1628 411520_n.jpg

[Wild Cobra]

Looks like someone is not liking these growing protests too much..

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/308054_10150309864546130_305135551129_7928030_1628 411520_n.jpg
Or is it the fact that the first story isn't always correct?

Dan...

It's the New York Slimes. Don't worry about it, they hype everything for sales.

[Wild Cobra]

I'll trust USA Today, over the NY Slimes:

700 arrested on Brooklyn Bridge after protest (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-10-01-Wall-Street-protest-Brooklyn-Bridge.htm)

This explains why the protest got so illegal, as to be arrested:

Mostly, the protests have been peaceful, and the movement has shown no signs of losing steam. Celebrities like Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon even made recent stops downtown to encourage the group.

[angrydude]

Clearly Bloomberg has lost the consent of the governed and we should bomb NYC and assassinate the mayor like we did in Libya.

On the plus side, think of how our GDP will grow from the rebuilding.

[boutons_deux]

There were 3000 or so marching in Boston.

People have been screwed, people are desperate, people are pissed.

But nothing will improve.

The criminal, fraudulent financial sector has successfully blocked Warren, gutted financial regulations (Repugs are even saying less financial regulation is needed), refused to budge on mortgage relief, fights the MERS racket and robo-signing frauds, etc.

To get a Repug Exec+Congress elected, the financial sector, along with the Repugs and UCA, is refusing to lend, spend money while sitting on $Ts of cash, starving the small businesses funds and killing any hope of increased employment and consumer spending.

No pain for the financial sector and corps, because they make their $Ts overseas, in the Wall st casino, in the commodities speculation, all of which are detached, isolated from the Real Economy of Human-Americans.

Any attempts by Congress move the financial sector back to stability will be blocked by the Repugs.

America is fucked, and unfuckable, just like the unfucked VRWC intended when it got organized in the 1970s and got their useful idiot St Ronnie to start their shitball rolling over the USA.

[boutons_deux]

3,000 protestors march towards Bank of America in Boston

On Friday afternoon, 3,000 protestors marched towards Bank of America in downtown Boston to signal their disapproval over the banks foreclosure practices. 24 people were arrested for trespassing but are unlikely to face serious charges, according to law enforcement.

“They wanted to be arrested, and we obliged,” Boston police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told the Boston Herald.

Bank of America spokesman T.J. Crawford brushed off the protestors’ actions.

“These individuals choose to ignore the facts and instead focus on increasingly aggressive PR stunts,” Crawford said told the Herald. “Bank of America has a lot to be proud of in Massachusetts, from modifying 18,000 mortgages since 2008, to lending nearly $400 million to small businesses that are fueling the local economy in the first half of 2011.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/01/3000-protestors-march-towards-bank-of-america-in-boston/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

"proud" BoA is of course totally corrupt, gouging, and still bankrupt except for accepted accounting fraud.

[ElNono]

This explains why the protest got so illegal, as to be arrested:

What did they told the group? Were you there?

[vy65]

Susan Sarandon is a notorious felon tbh

[ElNono]

Agitators!

[boutons_deux]

Susan Sarandon is a notorious felon tbh

evidence for your slander?

[ChuckD]

Stupid fools just don't know how to respect the law.

It's not against the law to peacefully gather and protest, ever.

[ChuckD]

3,000 protestors march towards Bank of America in Boston

On Friday afternoon, 3,000 protestors marched towards Bank of America in downtown Boston to signal their disapproval over the banks foreclosure practices. 24 people were arrested for trespassing but are unlikely to face serious charges, according to law enforcement.

“They wanted to be arrested, and we obliged,” Boston police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told the Boston Herald.

Bank of America spokesman T.J. Crawford brushed off the protestors’ actions.

“These individuals choose to ignore the facts and instead focus on increasingly aggressive PR stunts,” Crawford said told the Herald. “Bank of America has a lot to be proud of in Massachusetts, from modifying 18,000 mortgages since 2008, to lending nearly $400 million to small businesses that are fueling the local economy in the first half of 2011.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/01/3000-protestors-march-towards-bank-of-america-in-boston/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

"proud" BoA is of course totally corrupt, gouging, and still bankrupt except for accepted accounting fraud.

They were probably angry about the $5 debit fees. Fucking pirates.

[Wild Cobra]

It's not against the law to peacefully gather and protest, ever.
First of all, the key word is "peaceable." Then they still have to follow local laws and cannot impede traffic. Permits are required in cases of using the streets.

[Wild Cobra]

They were probably angry about the $5 debit fees. Fucking pirates.
Then they can take their banking elsewhere.

If, in mass, BA loses checking accounts to other banks, the whole industry will think twice before other banks implementing a similar charge.

Besides. They don't need to use debit. Start using cash.

[mavs>spurs]

I plan on taking my business from wells fargo to a credit union if they start charging me to use my debit card imho. It's not really the 5 bucks it's the principal of the matter, you aren't going to charge me to use my cash in a world where everyone uses plastic as a substitute to cash whenever you're already making money off of me just having my money deposited in the first place.

[MannyIsGod]

Anyone have a transcript of the protests?

[vy65]

evidence for your slander?

Yah, it's called sarcasm you fucking idiot.

[Capt Bringdown]

Here's a first-person account from a protester that was arrested in NYC:


At this point people began to line up in order to leave the bridge willingly. The officers were only letting about five people at a time leave. Several minutes passed and suddenly they quit letting people leave. A white shirted officer began to shout to the rear of the crowd, “You wanted to stay! Now you’re staying! You’re all getting arrested!” Many people in the rear of the crowd began to freak out – many were crying and begging to leave willingly.

I contemplated what to do. In my mind it would be better for me to willingly turn myself in so that I could leave sooner and show that I was not resisting arrest, and explain that I was there to document and take photos. I was then yelled at by the same white-shirt that yelled at the crowd earlier, “You wanna go in? Ok, then step right up”, as if I was insincere about my willingness to go in

- more - (http://my.firedoglake.com/avalowrey/2011/10/02/occupy-jail-cells/)

[SnakeBoy]

What exactly is the point of these protests supposed to be?

[ElNono]

What exactly is the point of these protests supposed to be?

Some people are pissed at Wall Street, it seems.

[boutons_deux]

"What exactly is the point of these protests supposed to be"

As with any protest movement, there's a diversity of issues.

But unlike the shilling/duped tea baggers, the Occupy Wall St crowd is accurately targeting a diversity of crimes, frauds, abuses of the financial sector, along with protesting the Banksters' Great Jobs Depression.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

What exactly is the point of these protests supposed to be?

Its a byproduct of a political system where people do not feel represented.

[boutons_deux]

"people do not feel represented"

Feel? Human-Americans are NOT represented, and the observant ones know it.

Corporate-Americans' votes-with-$$ decide who gets elected and then who gets screwed, and who gets protected/enriched by government whores.

[Capt Bringdown]

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[Drachen]

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/6201618503_d4f2e4e850_o.jpg

GIR is protesting something other than the kites of his taquitos?

[boutons_deux]

New York's Finest Porkers! :lol

Lean, Mean, and Ready to Chow Down!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/10/03/nyregion/white1/white1-articleLarge.jpg

As the Occupy Wall Street protests, which began on Sept. 17, lurch into their third week, it is often the white shirts who lay hands on protesters or initiate arrests. Video recordings of clashes have shown white shirts — lieutenants, captains or inspectors — leading underlings into the fray.

White shirts led the face-off with protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon. The episode provided no viral YouTube moments, as the senior officers avoided confrontations with the demonstrators. Yet as hundreds of arrests were made, chants of “white shirts, white shirts” could be heard.

And a white shirt is the antagonist in the demonstrations’ defining image: Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna’s dousing of some penned-in women with pepper spray on Sept. 24, which seemed to surprise at least one of the blue shirts standing near him on East 12th Street, near University Place. The department is investigating the spraying.

Martin R. Stolar, a member of the National Lawyers Guild who is representing protesters, said, “It appears that it is white shirts that are directing the rough arrests.” To him, their actions constitute a policy from on high. Even the chief of department, Joseph J. Esposito, the highest-ranking officer, was mixing with marchers last Saturday, briefly holding two people by the arm and directing their arrests.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/nyregion/nypds-white-shirts-take-on-enforcer-role.html?scp=1&sq=white%20shirts&st=cse

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These flaccid dicks squirt Mace to compensate up for their erectile dysfunction.

Christie in fact is very much The Typical American Male

[Viva Las Espuelas]

What exactly is the point of these protests supposed to be?

I'd like to ask that to everyone over there doing this. What exactly is the point? I wonder if they'd answer it without looking at each other for help.

[boutons_deux]

"I'd like to ask that to everyone over there doing this. What exactly is the point?"

Did you have the same curiosity about tea bagger "morans" points?

[DarrinS]

Anyone else think these protests are about three years late? WTF?

[Spurminator]

About 15 years late, tbh.

[Wild Cobra]

New York's Finest Porkers! :lol

Lean, Mean, and Ready to Chow Down!

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/10/03/nyregion/white1/white1-articleLarge.jpg

I find it unbelievable that pigs can maintain their job without being a t a little lean and at least a little athletic.

[Wild Cobra]

Even Ed Schultz is calling out the protesters. Heard him on his radio program today. He didn't call them stupid, but he was obviously thinking such things and would have used some name calling if they were of the other political side.

[boutons_deux]

"he was obviously thinking such things"

obvious to mind-reader WC? :lol

[ElNono]

Even Ed Schultz is calling out the protesters. Heard him on his radio program today. He didn't call them stupid, but he was obviously thinking such things and would have used some name calling if they were of the other political side.

Who is Ed Schultz?

[Capt Bringdown]

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http://www.truthdig.com/images/eartothegrounduploads/TearDownThisWall-399.jpg

[4>0rings]

Anyone else think these protests are about three years late? WTF?
This is just the beginning. As this country falls further and further, there will be more protests and violence.

[ChuckD]

What exactly is the point of these protests supposed to be?

They're actually protesting the people who are responsible for our shit economy, not like the dumbass teabaggers.

[DMX7]

No goddamn way WC is listening to Ed Schultz.

[m>s]

they arrested 700 but would have to release them all immediately because prisons are full

[Wild Cobra]

No goddamn way WC is listening to Ed Schultz.
Sorry...

I do...

I listen to local talk radio, to include KPOJ (http://www.620kpoj.com/main.html). I almost always disagree with him, but it's always good to understand the enemy. On KPOJ, I listen to Ed Schultz (http://wegoted.com/), Randi Rhodes (http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/main.html), and Thom Hartmann (http://www.thomhartmann.com/).

[Wild Cobra]

Who is Ed Schultz?
Wiki: Ed Schultz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Schultz)

[ElNono]

Wiki: Ed Schultz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Schultz)

thanks

[Viva Las Espuelas]

He's the "right wing slut" guy. I listen to him too. Not to be confused with read what he says.

[Agloco]

Tip of the iceberg?

[MannyIsGod]

sorry...

I do...

I listen to local talk radio, to include kpoj (http://www.620kpoj.com/main.html). I almost always disagree with him, but it's always good to understand the enemy. on kpoj, i listen to ed schultz (http://wegoted.com/), randi rhodes (http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/main.html), and thom hartmann (http://www.thomhartmann.com/).

smh

[Agloco]

Sorry...

I do...

I listen to local talk radio, to include KPOJ (http://www.620kpoj.com/main.html). I almost always disagree with him, but it's always good to understand the enemy.

The enemy?

Hooray for proper mindsets.

[Wild Cobra]

The enemy?

Hooray for proper mindsets.
At times, they are.

Yes, I should have used a different word, but sometimes it's fun to take the extreme viewpoint. Why not, people already accuse me of the extreme when I'm not. Just giving them what they expect of me.

[baseline bum]

Since when did shooting Mexicans and tying tubes of poor people move to the center of the aisle?

[clambake]

Since when did shooting Mexicans and tying tubes of poor people move to the center of the aisle?

don't sweat it. he couldn't even keep an obedient korean around.

[Wild Cobra]

LOL... You guys and your racist thoughts...

[Wild Cobra]

Will there be more arrests?

Now that the snow is coming, how long will they hold out? There is even talk of using more laws to remove them:

'Occupy' camp defiant on snow day (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occupy_camp_defiant_on_snow_day_hG5neMYoXbQ6ATy4yg pI2J)

[MannyIsGod]

:lol

You're so not authoritarian.

[MannyIsGod]

:lol

You're so not authoritarian.

[boutons_deux]

Second scandal in a week rocks New York cops

Sixteen New York Police Department officers pleaded not guilty to charges of widespread fixing of traffic tickets as well as more serious crimes, in the second scandal to hit the force in a week.

Five civilians were also netted in the nearly three-year undercover probe that involved the wire tapping of more than 10,000 phone calls and resulted in indictments containing some 1,600 misdemeanor and felony counts.

Although most charges were for relatively minor crimes of tampering with traffic tickets to help friends and relations, the probe bared an ugly side to New York’s so-called “Finest” just days after the arrest of officers in an unrelated gun-running scandal.

“It’s difficult to have to announce for the second time this week that police officers have been arrested for misconduct,” Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

“Their misdeeds tarnish the good name and reputation of the vast majority of police officers who perform their duties honestly and often at great risk to their own personal safety.”

It was also a rare assault by prosecutors on the police and their powerful union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. Hundreds of police and friends crowded the courthouse entrance in a muscular show of support for the accused men.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/28/second-scandal-in-a-week-rocks-new-york-cops/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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Police pissed their corrupt bruvvas got caught in crimes:

Officers Jeer at Arraignment of 16 Colleagues in Ticket-Fixing Investigation

A three-year investigation into the police’s habit of fixing traffic and parking tickets in the Bronx ended in the unsealing of indictments on Friday and a stunning display of vitriol by hundreds of off-duty officers, who converged on the courthouse to applaud their accused colleagues and denounce their prosecution.


Police officers filled the hallway of State Supreme Court in the Bronx, awaiting the arraignment of 16 officers on Friday.

As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and investigators, chanting “Down with the D.A.” and “Ray Kelly, hypocrite.”

As the defendants emerged from their morning court appearance, a swarm of officers formed a cordon in the hallway and clapped as they picked their way to the elevators. Members of the news media were prevented by court officers from walking down the hallway where more than 100 off-duty police officers had gathered outside the courtroom.

The assembled police officers blocked cameras from filming their colleagues, in one instance grabbing lenses and shoving television camera operators backward.

The unsealed indictments contained more than 1,600 criminal counts, the bulk of them misdemeanors having to do with making tickets disappear as favors for friends, relatives and others with clout. But they also outlined more serious crimes, related both to ticket-fixing and drugs, grand larceny and unrelated corruption. Four of the officers were charged with helping a man get away with assault.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/nyregion/officers-unleash-anger-at-ticket-fixing-arraignments-in-the-bronx.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

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NYC Police Officer Allegedly Says 'Fried Another Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_

The words allegedly spoken by a New York City police officer accused of illegally arresting a Black New York City resident – “fried another Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_,” – are shocking.

But not if you’re familiar with the long, infuriating history of police racial profiling. Not if you’re among the millions – yes, millions – of citizens who’ve been unfairly stopped by the police over the past decade. Not if you’re familiar with the details of the two separate, current federal lawsuits which charge that two different New York City Police Department practices are racially discriminatory and unconstitutional.

One, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, claims that the city in implementing its street-level stop-and-frisk tactic has engaged in widespread and unjustified stops and racial profiling.

The second, brought against the New York City government and the New York City Housing Authority by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the Legal Aid Society of New York City, and the private law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP. contends that the city’s policing practices in its public housing developments – most notably, its “vertical sweeps” of buildings — “routinely” subject residents and those who visit them to illegal stops and false arrests that serve no lawful purpose. The lawsuit charges that the number of these vertical patrols, which are conducted by both Housing Authority police officers and the New York City police officers, has approached 200,000 a year in recent years and has resulted in thousands of residents of these buildings and visitors to them being stopped and/or arrested on trespass charges.

http://www.blackvoicenews.com/news/news-wire/46958-nyc-police-officer-allegedly-says-fried-another-Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_.htm l

[leemajors]

I'm sure they can put all that money Chase gave them to good use now!

[DarkReign]

nvm