On October 5th, protestors were attacked again while the Nations media did their best to ignore what was happening in their own back yard.....
via Huffington Post:
Just before 8 p.m. Wednesday, reportedly at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, a New York Police Department officer appeared to turn on a throng of activists with the Occupy Wall Street movement, hitting them with a baton. A video posted hours later to YouTube shows the officer wielding the baton with two hands -- like a baseball bat -- as he swings at and strikes the demonstrators. At one point, a woman can be heard shrieking in the background.
The white-shirt cop, most likely a supervisor, had stood next to at least a half-dozen other officers, including other department brass. The video shows the officer appearing to nudge a spectator out of the way, back up and raise his baton. He then gets off three swings before the crowd appears to surge toward him -- digital cameras and video recorders held high.
This may be the first of many videos documenting clashes between the police and Occupy Wall Street. At the end of the video a few in the crowd chant: "The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!"
It is unclear from the video what provoked the officer's actions, but HuffPost's Matt Sledge, who was at the scene, reports the baton swinging took place after a handful of people had been arrested for attempting to cross a police barricade.
When reached for comment Friday night, a New York Police Department spokesman who refused to be identified said he had heard about the video but had not seen it and therefore could not comment.
Throughout the night, activists had reported via Twitter that the police had resorted to using pepper spray and had made some arrests. A spokesperson for Occupy Wall Street later reported some 20 arrests in total.
Fox 5, the local affiliate in New York, reported that police officers had struck the station's journalists with batons and doused them with pepper spray:
The White Mice strike again!!!!
Tthis what our Politicians ( and the "Meat Monkey's" that fling their verbal shit on what passes for "News" in our Country ) were complaining about when they rose up in righteous indignation at the abuses they saw in Egypt/Tunisia/Syria? Libya being dished out by those Government's goons against their own people?
Did they not rail against the abuses they saw on their Tee Vee screens day in and day out and rush to align themselves with what they claimed was the "Rights of FREE PEOPLES EVERYWHERE" to demand JUSTICE when they, the people, were being oppressed by the powers that had enslaved the for so long?
Did our Government not rush to bomb Libya after it's leader and his police state attacked and brutally crushed his people for demanding FREEDOM from tyranny?
Did our Government not turn it's back on one of it's allies in Egypt's Mubarak when his people rose up and demanded that the boot of oppression be lifted from their necks?
I mean...It was so bad that they just had to send ( CNN's ) Anderson "Pooper" sCooper to be one with his brothers in Egypt did they not?
Why isn't ""Pooper" sCooper hanging out with HIS people down on Wall Street?
So I ask...."Why isn't our Government falling all over themselves to support the People demanding JUSTICE in our own back yard? Where are the speeches, the Air power, the military. The CIA hit squads now that America's own are demanding the same justice folks all over the world are demanding?
Where are our LEADERS?
Corporate Whore Hypocrites! Each and every one of them! No wonder the World despises us. Do as I say...Not as I do!
And then there is this: Here we have one of NYPD's finest bragging to the young man behind the video camera with glee on how his Nightstick: was going to get a work out tonight:
Disgusting piece of pig shit!
By the way: Do you think this would have happened or gone unnoticed had it been a Tea Bagger with a misspelled sign that was attacked by UNION POLICE????
No, somehow I think CNN, Fox and MSNBC would have all been falling all over themselves to report so you could decide!!!!!
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