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freedom fighter jh

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7. It could be because this is DC.

Reply to Pryderi (Original post)

Tue Oct 15, 2013, 08:09 AM

Oct 2013

In my experience, the DC police are pretty gentle with protestors.

I was at Occupy one day in DC. The group just kind of spontaneously decided to take over a pretty big street, and the cops responded by waving traffic out of the way.

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VIOLENT ENCOUNTER: Why Aren't the Teabaggers being Pepper Sprayed Like OWS??? [View all] Pryderi Oct 2013 OP

A few reasons IMO. djean111 Oct 2013 #1

That and the Right Wing likes to play with guns and that could turn nasty. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2013 #16

And that's the question I've been asking on Facebook, to which there are no replies. canoeist52 Oct 2013 #2

IF THAT blueknight Oct 2013 #3

Locked up? MynameisBlarney Oct 2013 #10

Because OWS JackInGreen Oct 2013 #4

Because the DC police are not the NYPD? jberryhill Oct 2013 #5

Tear gas pepper spray beatings and bullets are for the left. nt. Warren Stupidity Oct 2013 #6

It could be because this is DC. freedom fighter jh Oct 2013 #7

Are you kidding? LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #11

Star Ledger? (NT) The Wizard Oct 2013 #19

yep. worked there 11 years LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #20

Are you unaware of DC police pepper-spraying OWS protestors? Try this as a start: AnotherMcIntosh Oct 2013 #21

Maybe the cops did nothing b/c they didn't want to have to do mouth-to-mouth on all of the Dustlawyer Oct 2013 #8

Perhaps to give them as little media ink as possible? LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #9

Should we maybe send sympathetic messages to these police officers? raging moderate Oct 2013 #12

um...there were a lot of US vets in that crowd? ellennelle Oct 2013 #13

That was my thought. Please don't give the wingnuts any martyrs. Especially if there is video. Dollface Oct 2013 #17

DC is one thing Plucketeer Oct 2013 #14

because the teabaggers heaven05 Oct 2013 #15

Radical right wing extremists The Wizard Oct 2013 #18

They shot and killed a woman just 2 weeks ago IronLionZion Oct 2013 #22