Occupy Wall Street protesters march against police brutality

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Thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in New York to highlight police brutality at last week's protest against the power of the US finance industry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/01/occupy-wall-street-protesters-police-brutality

Several thousand anti-Wall Street protesters marched through downtown Manhattan on Friday night to protest against incidents of police brutality at a previous demonstration.

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It has attracted celebrity visits from liberal figures such as filmmaker Michael Moore and actor Susan Sarandon. On Friday an apparently false rumour that the band Radiohead were to play an impromptu gig at the square caused a temporary Twitter storm.

But Friday night's march was aimed at highlighting the police violence at the previous protest. A long line of placard-carrying demonstrators wound the short distance from Zuccotti Park where the protesters are camped near Wall Street to Police Plaza, where the New York Police Department has its headquarters.

The march was led by a group of elderly grandmothers wearing yellows bibs emblazoned with the words: "Grannies for peace". That seemed to symbolise the protest's good-natured mood which appeared to be matched by the police's willingness to give the group the freedom to demonstrate.



A man holds up an anti-Wall Street placard on the march to NYPD headquarters. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images

[rosesaylavee]

1. That last line is a bit irksome " willingness to give the group the freedom to demonstrate."

Not that its guaranteed by the Bill of Rights or anything. Rather wonderful of them, wasn't it? To let them people protest the government...

:eyes:

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Two words:

Haymarket Square.


"Rights" are what the guys who own the cops ay they are.

[rosesaylavee]

5. Agreed.

Fortunately, many of the cops are agreeing with our side as their pensions and jobs are in jeopardy same as ours.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. That was certainly our experience in WI.

The only exception was the State Patrol, who are directed by a Walker henchman.

Walker tried to split the cops, firemen & prison guards off from the rest of the state & county employees by giving them special deals in terms of retaining their unions, etc. These folks didn't fall for it stood with the protestors.

[dkf]

3. Now they have become their own cause.

Funny how that works.

[classysassy]

4. The police are out there

"To serve and protect" the Wall street criminals,"What a revolting situation this is" ,thanks Mr Bendix