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[markpkessinger]

Boston Police Throw American Flag To Ground, Arrest Veterans, Trash Property To Protect ‘Green Space’ From 99 Percent

By Brad Johnson on Oct 11, 2011 at 3:21 am

In one of the largest mass arrests in recent Boston history, the Boston Police Department cleared a park of activists with the 99 Percent Movement in the early hours of Tuesday morning, dismantling and destroying tents that had been set up on Monday. Startling footage shot by an onlooker shows members of Veterans for Peace, an organization of U.S. military veterans who oppose war, being arrested by members of the Boston Police Department, their flags — including the American flag — being thrown to the ground:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu63e7QD_5k&feature=player_embedded

Before the arrests and clearing of the park, the police surrounded it, lining up over a dozen paddy wagons along one side. They told members of the media to leave and not to film proceedings. After a five-minute warning to disperse, police moved in, first arresting the peacefully protesting veterans — who included a female veteran of the Iraq War, according to the Boston Phoenix — and then other Occupy Boston activists. According to Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, about 100 arrests were made.

The police then tore down the protesters’ encampment. Live feeds from onlookers showed Boston Police dumping dismantled tents, signs, and chairs into waiting garbage trucks, destroying the protesters’ property.

Tuesday morning’s mass arrest marks the first significant confrontation between police and Occupy Boston. Activists in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street began an occupation of Dewey Square Park, a small park in the heart of Boston’s financial district on Friday, September 30, without conflict. The number of participants in Occupy Boston outgrew the space over the week. On Monday morning, dozens of protesters set up a new occupation on the Rose Kennedy Greenway between Pearl and Congress Streets, one block northeast of Dewey Square. Over the course of the day, the Boston Police Department issued warnings to the occupiers of the new encampment that they were at risk of arrest because of potential damage to the greenway.

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Read full article at: http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/11/340186/boston-police-throw-american-flag-to-ground-arrest-veterans-trash-property-to-protect-green-space-from-99-percent/

[Pharaoh]

1. I would say

that is highly symbolic, and should go viral with that message being pointed out. Heck even the Teabaggers will be outraged.........

[dogmoma56]

3. "the Teabaggers will be outraged." only if the Koch Brothers tell them to be..

they are all just Flying Monkeys

[pacalo]

4. Teabaggers would get outraged only if Fixed News told them to be outraged.

It doesn't matter if veterans are getting arrested & the American flag is thrown to the ground. They think strictly what they are told by Fixed News; & not for one moment does Fixed News really care. I suspect their attitude toward veterans is, 'Thanks for helping us make profits off the corporate-military complex; however, you're useless to us now.'

[piratefish08]

6. Teabaggers and the right will react with the 'appropriate' response

when instructed a to what that will be......

[deminks]

2. 'They told members of the media to leave and not to film proceedings'

Which side are you on?

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[Heywood J]

7. It's the same city where busing protestors

tried to spear a black man with the American flag.

[newspeak]

9. wow. home of the boston tea party

home of Henry Thoreau. The tea baggers naming themselves after the tea party "taxation without representation." But, do you think they know it was also about a corporate monopoly collaborating with the monarchy? That colonists could only do business with the corporation. Gee, that seems like the government and business against the will of the people.

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[Fire Walk With Me]

10. #occupyboston on Facebook have posted a request for legal aid donations:

They've asked for $4000.00 to help with bail.

https://www.wepay.com/donate/42546?utm_campaign=donations&utm_medium=link&utm_source=facebook