The most fucked up thing I've seen so far in the occupy movement.

[Jonathan Wylie]

[Griffin Lambert]

Do you really believe that guy did hear the warning? Not to mention the line of cops in fucking riot gear that would have been my cue to get the fuck out right there.

You're right, the line of cops with riot gear is pretty self explanatory.

[Sean Winnik]

obviously most of us here are trolling, i'm just saying we all could have learned something. me included.

[David Rosado]

he's a marine, two time former iraq war vet. he's unconscious in critical condition in the hospital. That's a fucked up thing to say, sounds straight up evil.

Culbertson is just trolling.

That is fucked up. And when others go to help the man down they throw more at them. Police are here to protect our citizens, not harm them.

Not anymore bro. They're hired muscle now. They're paid to protect the interests of those with more money.

Yeah it was but it wasn't very loud. You wouldn't be able to hear that with people chanting around you.

From what I heard from a guy who's at the NY occupy, you can't hear the cops. Like you hear what sounds like the megaphone, but you don't really hear what they're saying. And cops dressed in riot gear is not a warning. It's a threat. But these people are standing up for our rights. This has to happen.

I agree. It is clear the cop was protecting the guy that got flashbanged in the face by flashbanging him in the face again.

LOL. Great post.

Okay let's all be reasonable. Regardless of what hurt this guy, the cops should never have thrown a SECOND flashbang directly next to an already injured person (head trauma no less). Also let's talk about this "fair warning thing;" just because someone lets you know that they are about to assault you (which is what this would be if the cops weren't legally aloud to do basically whatever they want) does not mean that it is justified to do it. And honestly blaming the protesters for pushing the cops to do this is blaming the victim in such an obvious way. "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety" -Benjamin Franklin. Right now these people are trying to hold on to what liberty they have left. The protesters are willing to be beaten by cops and pepper sprayed, and gassed because it is not about individual safety but about a skewed economic and political atmosphere that is harming people throughout this country (and the world) regardless of whether we are democrats or republicans or hippies or vets or some combination of all of the above.

Great post again.

You guys are so right those cops are assholes! Throw 'em jail.

They are. We have the right to protest. Why are we being shot with rubber bullets, flashbanged, maced, and beaten? Cops should just be making sure no one's getting hurt and no crimes are being committed. They shouldn't be using intimidation and violence. They should be looking at us as fellow citizens, not enemies.

[Ron Almeida]

i have protested many times before and even took my kids...

but every protest i went to never required police to come in and remove us...

you have a right to protest...

but, you dont have a right to occupy something that does not belong to you...

once you started to occupy the streets and parks you now are infringing on everyone elses rights...

this is all just union organized bs, the same people who voted for the bailouts...

[Jonathan Wylie]

i have protested many times before and even took my kids...

but every protest i went to never required police to come in and remove us...

you have a right to protest...

but, you dont have a right to occupy something that does not belong to you...

once you started to occupy the streets and parks you now are infringing on everyone elses rights...

this is all just union organized bs, the same people who voted for the bailouts...

Holly Shit! there is intelligent life on this forum. So Ron what your saying is if you were a business owner in the area you wouldn't want these people pissing and shitting in the streets and impeding traffic driving away costumers or clients.

[Jonathan Wylie]

From what I heard from a guy who's at the NY occupy, you can't hear the cops. Like you hear what sounds like the megaphone, but you don't really hear what they're saying. And cops dressed in riot gear is not a warning. It's a threat. But these people are standing up for our rights. This has to happen.

Thank you for taking your highly insightful second hand knowledge of what happened in NY and applying it to what happened on the other side of the country.

[Ron Almeida]

Holly Shit! there is intelligent life on this forum. So Ron what your saying is if you were a business owner in the area you wouldn't want these people pissing and shitting in the streets and impeding traffic driving away costumers or clients.

Thats what I am saying...

[Jonathan Wylie]

They are. We have the right to protest. Why are we being shot with rubber bullets, flashbanged, maced, and beaten? Cops should just be making sure no one's getting hurt and no crimes are being committed. They shouldn't be using intimidation and violence. They should be looking at us as fellow citizens, not enemies.

I'm sorry to hear these things happened to you.

[Ron Almeida]

They are. We have the right to protest. Why are we being shot with rubber bullets, flashbanged, maced, and beaten? Cops should just be making sure no one's getting hurt and no crimes are being committed. They shouldn't be using intimidation and violence. They should be looking at us as fellow citizens, not enemies.

Because of your disrespect of others and authority...