Occupy Wall Street Arrests; Fox 5 Crew and Protesters Hit by Mace, Batons

[highplainsdem]

Source: Fox 5 New York

MYFOXNY.COM - While covering the Occupy Wall Street protests on Wednesday night, Fox 5 photographer Roy Isen was hit in the eyes by mace from a police officer and Fox 5 reporter Dick Brennan was hit by an officer's baton.

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In the evening, crowds surged past barriers and NYPD officers moved in to contain the protesters. By many accounts, mayhem broke out.

Officers, many wearing white shorts indicating supervisor rank, swatted protesters with batons and sprayed them with mace, video from the scene showed.

Fox 5's Isen and Brennan were there and witnessed the chaos. At one point, Brennan was hit in the abdomen by a police baton and Isen got irritant in his eyes. Both journalists were all right and continued to cover the protests and arrests.

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Read more: http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/occupy-wall-street-protest-broadens-scope-20111005#.To0cU53eLtQ.twitter

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Video at the link.

[bigworld]

1. It's the thud of the batons that gets me.

[jerseyjack]

14. The thud of the batons is probably the drums you hear in the background.

Still, especially the one white shirt was out of control.

[DJ13]

2. Tommorrow they'll be dressed like this

:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

3. Whacked a faux snooze reporter? No shit. Probably deserved it.

[SoCalNative]

5. Local Fox TV station news

not the right-wing news channel

[No Elephants]

7. My Fox local news is RW. Not as blatant as Fox News network, but it's detectible.

[Ian David]

16. Same here. Local Fox is pretty bad. n/t

[lonestarnot]

10. No Foxxie crap for me of any sort, ever!

[dipsydoodle]

13. Thanks for that explanation.

Appreciated.

[greiner3]

18. By definition;

Fox, and all it's affiliates, is Right Wing.

However, the local affiliate in Columbus OH, is owned by the Sinclair Group;

Sinclair had experimented with using a centralized news organization called News Central that provided prepackaged news segments for distribution to several of the group's stations. These segments were integrated into programming during local news broadcasts. Mark E. Hyman, a high-ranking executive at Sinclair, also created conservative editorial segments called "The Point" that were broadcast on all of the group's stations with news departments. In addition, most of the stations that aired News Central emulated the prepackaged news studio appearance for local stories. This model was ultimately unsuccessful, and on March 31, 2006, News Central ended its national news broadcasts (although the "Point" commentaries lasted until November 30, 2006). Most stations running the News Central format ended up cancelling their news coverage altogether, although some stations that did so have subsequently contracted with competing stations in their markets to produce their newscasts.

Sinclair still produces a one-minute national news briefing for its stations, entitled Washington Newsroom. Starting in 2007, Sinclair launched a new newscast on some of its stations, completely separate from local news operations, called American Crossroads. Like News Central and "The Point", the program, hosted by Jeff Barnd (a news anchor at WBFF) covers national news stories and offers a conservative editorial segment.

In other words, Sinclair is adding his own national, and extreme Right Wing propaganda views, to each of his LOCAL stations news programs.

[izquierdista]

4. Is that a typo?

Because if supervisors were wearing white shorts, the protesters would be doubled over in laughter, not from the mace.

[aquart]

11. Thank you. I was envisioning it. Yes. A typo.

[chollybocker]

6. Last week, some cops got maced in the eyes by their own.

Now this week, a Foxsnooze reporter gets in the way of the cop spray.

"It gets better."

:)

[AsahinaKimi]

8. This reminds me of that old lawyer joke ...but with a twist..

What do you call a Fox News Reporter in Jail? .... Answer: A good start.

[Liberalynn]

19. Good one!

I know it was a local fox broadcast but I still had to laugh at seeing the words "Fox" and "journalist" used together. These words don't belong any where near each other.

[No Elephants]

9. Will Fox now claim that law enforcement has a liberal bias?

[PatrynXX]

12. pracitcally mirroring 2008

as I remember Fox folks with expensive cameras screaming hey we're Fox News... hey they were going after the media. go figure. as if Fox is any different t o the cops. er captains..


except they killed it off there. this is happening in more than one city. bit more difficult now.

[unionworks]

15. more anti protester violence?

Why is this not the DU headline???

[Javaman]

17. Maybe a bit more mace and a few more "thuds" will wake fox news up. nt

[unionworks]

20. whose bright idea

...was it to start a march without a permit?

[workinclasszero]

21. How many heads get cracked at tea party rallies?

How many teahadists get corralled and pepper sprayed in the face?? Or get their heads slammed into the bumpers of cars for filming the event?

Yeah....ZERO!

The insane part is most cops are union members getting screwed over by the 1% just like us but they still do the dirty work for their wall street masters anyway.

[unionworks]

22. seems

to be mostly white shirt supervisors promoted by gulliani. in other words thugs.