NYPD Overwhelmed by Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Motorcycle Cops Retreat

[kpete]

Run time: 06:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlpjtisFfXk   Posted on YouTube: November 17, 2011 By YouTube Member: mmflint Views on YouTube: 312   Posted on DU: November 18, 2011 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 7310

 
NYPD Overwhelmed by Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Motorcycle Cops Retreat
Reposted from: http://www.activistpost.com/2011/11/nypd-overwhelmed-by-occupy-wall-street.html
November 17, 2011 @ 7:57 pm
Protesters march on New York Stock Exchange on two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street. Outnumbered police are surrounded. Motorcycle cops retreat with nowhere else to go.
http://truthiscontagious.com/2011/11/17/nypd-overwhelmed-by-occupy-wall-street-protesters-motorcycle-cops-retreat

[xchrom]

1. Very nice! Nt

[markmyword]

28. Make My Day!

My day would be made IF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS(MILLIONS) of us
marched in every  big city across the country on the same day.

I'd LOVE to have MILLIONS go to Washington, DC and surround
the House, Senate, Supreme Court and the White House.

I want the Congress to HEAR the VOICES OF THE PEOPLE who
ELECTED THEM! Not the voices of those lobbyists who have their
ears at the country club or on a private jet.

The police and firefighters should be out there MARCHING with
us, as they're part of the 99 %.
How many of those REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS are TRYING TO FIRE
and/or REDUCE salaries of public servants?

The head of the firefighters union in Madison, Wisconsin
STANDS with the 99 %, because he knows Walker is trying to
destroy these unions and get these services privatized.


OWS is getting BIGGER AND LOUDER and this is FANTASTIC!

We need to KEEP ON MARCHING AND HAVE OUR VOICES HEARD.

[The Wizard]

2. The time has come

for Mayor Goonberg to resign in disgrace. He's got the money and resources to get out of town.

[emcguffie]

3. Watching this gives my heart this big lift.

It literally gets lighter.

I'm so happy and proud of them, I'm crying.

[wordpix]

4. I feel the same way, the whole movement gives me hope

and inspiration to Occupy Supreme Court when the health care repeal is heard there. Fat Tony and Scalia being feted by the repeal lawyers have me all geared up.

[jhrobbins]

12. Please, please, please let this movement have legs

[freshwest]

23. Beautiful. It made my day. I'm glad to have lived long enough to see this.

[Dawson Leery]

5. The time for this came along time back.

:bounce:

[Hulk]

6. I tip my hat to everyone of these brave and active individuals.

I'm losing ALL respect for the NYCPD. Honestly....they are asking for trouble...the police. Are we a fascist state yet??

[micraphone]

7. Wayyyyyy past that...

Started even before the 60s in Ohio...

On edit: qualifier

[defendandprotect]

18. What happened in Ohio -- ? But there was always that undercurrent ....

In NYC my first real look at them was their effort to create an appearance

of "juvenile delinquency" -- and many young boys did get caught in that trap.


My husband said that he would say to acquaintances going into Police Dept --

"but you're the equivalent of criminals!" - !!

[Magoo48]

9. Our security forces looking more and more like those we see in middle east.

[crunch60]

30. They have been building this kind of security force/

homeland security for a long time. Just the first time we have seen them in action on such a large scale. The 9/11 disaster gave the powers in government the opportunity they were looking for, to create militarized security forces all to protect us from the illusive "terrorists". Sort of same as the "Commies" and the Reds in the 50's. And we all remember what happened to Joe McCarthy.
Really created to control us, the 99%. :hippie:

[FedUp_Queer]

15. I work down near Wall Street (Broad Street to be exact).

Yes, we are a fascist state. I am down here every day and see the barricades and immense numbers of cops STANDING AROUND doing nothing (which gives lie to the Bloomberg's BS about the cops "keeping the peace"). In short, they aren't necessary. I got out of the subway yesterday to see the GESTAatsPOlizei (For non-German speakers, that's the full name of the Gestapo) and helicopters flying overhead. The "cops" were clad in riot gear and helmets. I remarked to two young women with blue hair who were part of the OWS contingent: "You definitely look menacing." So, yes, fascism is no longer "coming," it's here.

[chervilant]

27. Indeed,

fascism is here--dressed in riot gear, with a hard-on to use all the fancy gizmos they've accumulated over the last forty years.

[Enthusiast]

8. Kicked and recommended!

Uplifting!

[dotymed]

10. Bloomberg, Thank you.

By removing the OWS protestors from Zuccotti Park, you have unleashed about ten thousand pissed off demonstrators to roam the streets of NY. What a smart 1%'er you are.

I realize the absolute need for non-violence on our part and totally agree with it. That being said, it would have been so great and justified to see the protestors turn on the bully's on motorcycles and beat the shit out of them. Just to give them a taste of the overwhelming force, violent tactics that they use on peaceful citizens daily. This incident was no different, until they(cops) realized, that being the cowards they are, they didn't have overwhelming numbers to allow them to keep harming and bullying the protestors. They drive through the crowds, pushing people and bullying them, until they realize that they are way outnumbered. They were hitting people with their motorcycles and just generally being asshat bullies.

It would have been great if Bloomberg were in the crowd, trying to throw his weight around and unrecognized, he was hit by one of his motorcycle thugs.

[freshwest]

24. Exactly! +1,000

[crunch60]

31. and that is just what Bloomie is waiting for,

the protesters to use violence against the police. The police have used violence against the protesters for No reason, imagine what it would be like if we gave them a reason. I remember Kent State. No reason to kill there, but the guard did just that.

[dotymed]

11. I just turned on FOX and FRIENDS (yech) with Geraldo

Rivera (a fellow fox talking head)) as their guest. They were decrying the increasing violence of the OWS demonstrators. They claimed that the OWS movement attempted to shutdown wall street yesterday, then they attempted to shut down the subway system, additionally they came across a group of children walking to school, they would not let them pass and they verbally attacked the children..... REINSTATE THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE. Just imagine all of the uninformed (being nice) people watching and believing all of these lies. "Those damned violent protestors should be shot."

It was such a sickening display of propaganda that I wanted to break my tee vee. To his (small) credit, Geraldo did admit that the people in the OWS movement had "some" valid points, although they were being "squandered" because they have refused to release a list of demands. He did give some specific instances of socialism for the wealthy-vs- inequality for the masses, before they were able to change the subject.

They also covered a "counter-demonstration" (consisting of two people near wall street) of some unfortunate (obviously well-off) "businessmen" who were carrying signs because they couldn't get to their wall street jobs, because of the demonstrators. It was probably all staged. They were telling people on the street "get out of here" and "get a job," Oh, the manners of the entitled....

DISGUSTING. I changed back to Current T.V. to watch a show about the oil thugs running Nigeria. Current is great. I do wish they had fewer re-runs and more "anchor" shows featuring progressives.

[Danse]

13. Fox

Nice posts dotymed, but may I kindly suggest that you kill your television, or at the very least not watch Fox News. I don't have access to Cable television, but if I did, and if I voluntarily watched Fox, I would probably die of sheer frustration in a few years.

[dotymed]

19. lol, moderation. fox news was a "let's se what they are saying"

moment. I have heart problems already, I couldn't do fox. It was funnier than many comedy shows though.

[defendandprotect]

20. Would be best if every one turned off their TVs -- especially re crap like Fox ...

Sad re Geraldo Rivera -- looked like someone who once wanted to do the right thing --

but caught up in chasing the dollar bill.

[jwirr]

21. BS. At one point in this video it looked to me as if the biker cops were

cornered with no way out. Surrounded by protesters. I thought to myself - how do you like being cornered? And then it dawned on me that if the protesters had acted like the police there would have been violence. Our protesters are peace loving human beings.

[marias23]

14. Target Petition Shows An Immediate Effect of OWS

NPR reported this AM that over 100,000 people have signed a Target employee petition objecting to working on Thanksgiving. They credit OWS influence. Right on! (I know it shows my age.)

[graywarrior]

16. The chanting is such a beautiful sound

Great video! How about all those other video cameras cranking away? Thousands of individual records being made of this historic event. Makes me so proud!

[defendandprotect]

17. They are beautiful -- !! Wonderful to see --

Thanks --

[Marnie]

22. Out numbered a hundred or more to one and yet the horrible "mob"

that the right wing claims exists in the OWS groups never laid a hand on the pigs. And the pigs who beat and pepper spray them and destroy their private property have no fear from themselves eve though they are literally drowning in demonstrators.

Well done OWSers.

Learn a lesson pigs.

[ooglymoogly]

25. Outnumbered 99 to 1 nt

[ooglymoogly]

26. Lets hear it for OWS...they speak and represent all of us. kr nt

[tropicanarose]

29. Wow.......this moved me to tears. I am so proud. We shall overcome!

[Beartracks]

32. It looks like a cross section of America!

That's no sorry half-assed collection of jobless hippies at all.

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