Reply email from my brother who's a cop.

[Xicano]

I sent my brother who's a los angeles deputy sheriff a few videos of occupy wall street, including the "I AM NOT MOVING" video clip.

Here's the response:

I hope it gets even bigger because that’ll mean alot of overtime for me just like back when I was working the Rodney King riots…..I made LOTS of extra money. Chaa…Ching !

:puke:

[Fumesucker]

1. Well, there you go..

Horse's mouth and all that.

[mythology]

9. In this case,

I think it might have been from the other side of the horse.

[Fumesucker]

10. I have a brother of my own..

Didn't really want to go there with someone else's..

[MrMickeysMom]

2. I'm curious as to how much of a rookie your brother is?

He sounds like he's really young and following the "alpha" group mentality.... IOW... he'll look at that statement differently later... Saved here!

[asthmaticeog]

7. Since he worked the Rodney King riots, I'm guessing he's not much of a rookie.

:think:

[Xicano]

8. "Rookie"? Not even close. He's been a Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff for 20yrs

After serving in the Marines for several years and shortly after serving in Desert Storm as a Marine Scout Sniper, he joined the Los Angele's Sheriff's Department.

[MrMickeysMom]

13. Fuck....

That's sad.

[MindandSoul]

3. I'm sorry to say that to you. . .but your brother doesn't have much ethical sense!

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Well some think that way

OWS locally marching with cops in solidarity. Yesterday I talked to occupiers and baby sitters. Some of the boys in blue get it...they'll be there, one pink slip away.

Given local politics has a lot to do with it.

[kestrel91316]

5. This nation's biggest problem, IMHO, is the people who put personal

financial gain before all other considerations.

[MrSlayer]

6. Cops are 99%ers too.

I'm sure he can use the boost. He should thank the protestors.

[Xicano]

12. Thanks MrSlayer. That was actually the message of my email I sent him

Of course knowing my brother and his opinions and having experience with his co-worker friend's personalities. I tried to make the point that the police should be standing in solidarity with the occupy wall street because they too are the 99% being screwed by the 1%.

But I can say I'm not surprised with the response I got. I just wanted to post it here to share it with others.

[Bjorn Against]

11. Well at least he doesn't want to shut us down

It doesn't bother me one bit that he wants the overtime, he is part of the 99% and I am sure he has bills to pay like the rest of us do. While I wish he would have said some other reasons why he wanted us to grow as well I would much rather have a cop who wants us out there than a cop who wants to shut us down.

[Kennah]

14. So, one would think he's want the Occupy Movement to persist, not shut it down.

[EC]

15. Well, there's another way OWS is helping the

economy...forcing municipalities to pay cops. Hope he spends a good chunk of it creating demand.