‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent; Video Shows Police Macing Women - ABCNews

[WillyT]

‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Turn Violent; Video Shows Police Macing Women
By ABC News
Sep 25, 2011 1:03pm



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Video posted by the group Occupy Wall St from the eighth day of protests against corporations show police using Tasers and mace to control the crowd, which the group says has only made it more committed to keep up the demonstrations in lower Manhattan for the long haul.

A New York Police Department spokeswoman today confirmed the group’s claim that approximately 80 people were arrested Saturday, mainly for disorderly conduct and obstructing vehicular and pedestrian traffic. “One person was arrested for assaulting a police officer,” she said.

She added that no arrests have been made today. The spokeswoman could not confirm whether police officers are using mace, Tasers or netting against protesters.

Among the video clips on the Occupy Wall Street website is one that shows a police officer macing a group of young women penned in by orange netting:

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Link (w/Video): http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2011/09/occupy-wall-street-protests-turn-violent-video-shows-police-macing-women/

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[handmade34]

1. I am grateful to everyone there

they struggle today because some of us did yesterday and some of will tomorrow... how I wish I was there today

https://occupywallst.org/

[NYC_SKP]

2. #5

K/R

[Leopolds Ghost]

3. Keep up the struggle n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Kick and Recommend!

[Hissyspit]

5. More VIDEO:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x619163

[Zanzoobar]

6. Haven't you heard? There's a media blackout.

[markpkessinger]

11. For nearly a week there WAS

Or what coverage there was of the protests was minimal. Relative to the kind of non-stop coverage this would have received had it been a Tea Party event, it most certainly WAS a blackout!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Major Bloomberg thank you

Now you got the attention of the MSM, that was going out of it's way to ignore it,

Congrats...you forgot the 1960 s. And now more people know about it...

Thanks Mayor. Sincerely. Your cops are now going to start making this visible.

Good job!

[ZombieHorde]

8. The video pulled some punches with their edits, but I am really glad this

is getting some coverage.

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. The Machine certainly isn't winning itself any friends.

[markpkessinger]

10. Tell ABC News fix its headline about the Wall Street Protests

The headline makes it sound as if it was the protesters who turned violent. It was not; it was the police. Although the text of the article is reasonably fair, the headline is not. The link below is a form where you can submit comments about website content. In the subject drop-down, I selected "inaccurate information".

http://abcnews.go.com/Site/page?id=3068843

[okieinpain]

12. firstlight suggested a sponsor ship. does anyone know someone

dependable we could send money too. I've got a couple of bucks I can give.

[WillyT]

13. Kick !!!

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