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He said Watts, of Philadelphia, Pa., put together his tent a day after Jesse Jackson helped protect a medical tent from being dismantled on Oct. 17.
“A [police] captain told him to take it down,” the protester said. “[Watts] said, ‘No.’ He faced the cops down. After that, tents started popping up everywhere. That kid was a fighter.”
Soon after protesters started pitching tents, a gal pal of Watts’ told the New York Times Magazine he lost his virginity at the encampment.
“Brandon lost his virginity today — not to me,” Core Jones, 20, told the magazine on Oct. 23. “I don’t know who the girl is. But I want to have a party for him.”
(via Protester Brandon Watts, who was first to pitch a tent at Zuccotti Park, is now the bloody face of ‘Day of Action’ - NY Daily News)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luv3rsu6ld1qazc74o1_500.jpg)
He said Watts, of Philadelphia, Pa., put together his tent a day after Jesse Jackson helped protect a medical tent from being dismantled on Oct. 17.
“A [police] captain told him to take it down,” the protester said. “[Watts] said, ‘No.’ He faced the cops down. After that, tents started popping up everywhere. That kid was a fighter.”
Soon after protesters started pitching tents, a gal pal of Watts’ told the New York Times Magazine he lost his virginity at the encampment.
“Brandon lost his virginity today — not to me,” Core Jones, 20, told the magazine on Oct. 23. “I don’t know who the girl is. But I want to have a party for him.”
Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD’s Lost and Found
Worse, it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated electronics, a strategic smashing of at least part of the digital record logged by full-on occupiers. “Dude, all the laptops are in a row,” he tells us, baffled and raking his shock of brown hair. “They’ve all been smashed with bats.” When asked about the mangled property, LiPani admits that, inevitably, certain items could’ve been damaged in the shuffle: “I’m not surprised,” he says, to hear of damaged laptops. He adds that the DSNY is providing clearance forms to those occupiers concerned their property may’ve been mishandled or misplaced.
(via kileyrae)
Ask your city council this question the next time that cops bust up an Occupation.
Law and order at #OWS. Near the New York Stock Exchange.
(Via @katz)
Video of Police Assaulting #OWS Protestor and Punching Woman in the Face
From naked capitalism:
“This video was from this morning, when the police were keeping protestors out of the park, an illegal violation of a court injunction. The protestors show a copy of the court order and are (predictably) denied access to the park. The woman was punched at around 1:45; the footage does not show the actual blow, but you can pretty clearly infer from her suddenly being on the ground in obvious pain what happened.
If this is what you see, imagine what happened last night, with no cameras and videos to constrain police aggression.”
“Yes: to protect everyone’s health and safety, (Mayor Bloomberg) sent in this guy. There he is, helping the wounded and the sick with his two fists — ‘Florence’ and ‘Nightingale.’”
— STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report
If a New York Times writer covering the police raid of Occupy Wall Street quotes a New York Post writer about “deliberate” acts of police brutality visited upon him and also protesters, will the New York Post report on said acts of police brutality?
We will see.
This is an NYPD whiteshirt.
See the anger in his face?
See the cocked arm, ready to strike?
See the forward motion as he lunges at a peaceful protester?
The NYPD surrounded the park, out of the blue, around 1 A.M. this morning, most protesters caught unaware.
Most of them left peacefully, after being ordered to by cops using bullhorns and wearing riot gear.
The one who didn’t stayed behind, formed human chains and staying behind makeshift barricades.
They were forcibly removed, helpless, powerless against the machine.
And yet, this whiteshirt.
Full of anger; full of hate.
Ready to strike.
To hurt.
Why?
I think this says everything we need to know about America. Peaceful protesters are now terrorists.
George Orwell was a genius and there needs to be a statue dedicated to him in every city.
Soldiers
You have got to be kidding me. I wish I had been awake to watch this throughout the night.
These officers are regularly posted in the Financial District so seeing them there should not be a surprise. The commentary here is appropriate, however, and should serve as a stark reminder of what some of our civil liberties are falling to, and who they are being suppressed by.
FUTILE Protesters at Zuccotti Park were met by dozens of police officers under the direct supervision of Commissioner Ray Kelly; 70 were arrested. (Photo: Lucas Jackson / Reuters via the New York Times)
WITHOUT PREJUDICE Once inside Zuccotti Park, police tore down the tents and tarps that had housed Occupy Wall Street protesters for two months. (Photo: Robert Stolarik / The New York Times)
New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly was personally on hand to supervise the dismantling of the tents in Zuccotti Park.
A former New York detective admitted in court that it was common practice to plant drugs on innocent people in order to meet arrest quotas. Stephen Anderson, one of eight cops arrested in the scandal, admitted he planted cocaine on four men in a Queens bar in 2008 in order to help his coworker improve his arrest numbers. “It was something I was seeing a lot of, whether it was from supervisors or undercovers and even investigators,” said Anderson. The city paid $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by two men falsely arrested by Anderson and his partner.
(via Photos of Occupy Wall St.)Looks like Tony Baloney is getting himself a sweet daypack from an easy mark.
