Police Arrest About 400 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
In a tense showdown above the East River, the police arrested about 400 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests who took to the roadway as they tried to cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday afternoon.The police did not immediately release precise arrest figures, but said it was the choice of those marchers that led to the swift enforcement.
“Protesters who used the Brooklyn Bridge walkway were not arrested,” said the head police spokesman, Paul J. Browne. “Those who took over the Brooklyn-bound roadway, and impeded vehicle traffic, were arrested.”
But many protesters said that they thought the police had tricked and trapped them, allowing them onto the bridge and even escorting them across, only to surround them in orange netting after hundreds of them had entered.
“The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us on to the roadway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who was in the march but was not arrested.
Suckers! The bridge is like a giant holding pen. The cops could easily block both ends and arrest the protestors at their leisure.
Look on the bright side – they’ll have some nice jailhouse tattoos to show their friends.
The Crawdad Hole 
Like taking candy from a bunch of babies.
Fish swimming into the net to be caught.
Don’t drop your soap.
They don’t think. I remember the Cairo protestors being way smarter than this.
I think that’s because the Cairo protestors weren’t just doing it for fun and games — they were in it to either make Mubarak leave or end up dead themselves.
The stakes are way lower for these wannabes.
From what I read they were going over to Yankee stadium “to force the media to pay attention” to them.
Analysis of Grievances 🙂
http://www.businessinsider.com/occupy-wall-street-analyzing-their-list-of-demands-2011-10?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+clusterstock+%28ClusterStock%29&flv=1
WTF, it’s not Festivus yet. It is not time for the Airing of the Grievances.
Festivus for the rest of us….but apparently not for the Wall Street kids. It’s a good read. It’s the real manifesto they just released, and the author took his “red pen” to it 😉
😉
It’s a pretty good manifesto! The problem is, you actually have to be protesting “for” something.
That sign is great, “sh&t is f-ed up and bullsh&t.” Likely quite true, but what are you asking for? More fiber?
“We thought they were escorting us because they wanted us to be safe.”
ROFL! My bad, but that just cracked me up. I’m going to have to assume that these are highly privileged white kids that just don’t have much experience with law enforcement?
Rather then going out and learning everything the hard way, maybe they should talk to their parents? A bit of wisdom and experience would be helpful right about now. That’s one of the hazards of dismissing your elders as “dried up” and “no longer needed.” It’s a shame, quite a few of us have done some protesting ourselves and could have mentioned the dangers of getting charged with obstructing traffic. Those 10 Dept of Corrections buses parked at the end of the bridge may have been a clue, too.
These are T-ball players who think they’re in the majors 😉
“We thought they were escorting us because they wanted us to be safe.”
I was curious as to who you were quoting from the article and it turns out to be:
My guess is he doesn’t get out much.
LOL….that got me too!
Was wondering why they were crossing the bridge, just Brooklyn Heights on the other side, nothing really commercial to protest except maybe some nice coffee shops.
Just Banksy…
This is just beautiful. Video: Woman hears voice for the first time
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/01/video-hearing-your-voice-for-the-first-time/
Is the Personal Democracy Forum aligned with OFA. Anyone know either way..
Ralph, it is a nice video. But something seemed wrong to me – if she’s never heard sound or voice before, she wouldn’t know what words are. It would be like us hearing a foreign language – we would hear sounds, but they wouldn’t seem like “words” to us, they wouldn’t have meaning.
She was answering questions the tech asked when her eyes were covered, so she wasn’t reading lips. There’s no way she would understand the sounds (words) she was hearing the first time she heard them. I checked into it more, and she heard until age 4, and had partial, poor hearing after that. So – it’s wonderful that she can move forward now, but the title is misleading – it’s not a video of her hearing for the first time.
(and of couse, she speaks perfectly, which also doesn’t make sense if she has never heard – but that’s less of an issue than her supposed ability to understand words the first time she hears them!)
I think the headline is a bit misleading. She was not utterly deaf, she was profoundly impaired, and had used various hearing aids all her life. Just as many legally blind people do have some degree of sight, many legally deaf people also have varying degrees of hearing. A blind person who could suddenly see might recognize what a face looks like, but still marvel at the detail of what was previously a blur to them.
I think it’s more accurate to say she fully and clearly heard for the first time. We can’t know what, exactly she heard before, or what it sounded like in her head even with hearing aids, vs. what she is hearing in this clip. But her emotion over what she hears now appears genuine.
WMCB – I think we are saying the same thing lol
That’s right. She used hearing aids before, but they helped only a little bit. Mostly she used lip reading.
For Christ’s sakes, it’s a youtube which has went viral not the headline above the fold in the New York Times. I don’t really give a damn if it’s debunked or not.
Ralph, no one is attacking you. It was just a comment about the ability to understand words if you’ve truly never heard them before. It was a nice emotional video. I would say it’s only a plus when it also stimulates thought and discussion. Everything is okay!
CBS
Sarah writes on her YouTube channel: “I had an implant put in 8 weeks ago called The Esteem Implant by Envoy Medical. I was born deaf and have worn hearing aids from the age of 2, but hearing aids only help so much. I have gotten by this long in life by reading lips. This was taken as they were activating the implant.”
it is up to 700 arrested now
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/01/2011-10-01_dozens_arrested_at_occupy_wall_street_protest_brooklyn_bridge_shut_down_.html
Think I’m watching fewer movies these days because so many of these pampered millionaire hollywood actors are saying dumb santimonious things about politics. Which is too bad because I’m a big fan of movies.
They seem to cool until they speak their own thoughts. Turns out what’s really cool about them are the writers behind the scenes.
I don’t go anywhere without my speech writer and teleprompter.
Police videos with warning to protestors … it’s your basic Civil Disobedience 101 rule. If the police issue a warning…..you are free to leave. If you choose to stay, you will be arrested. They were breaking the law by obstructing traffic for hours.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/10/02/police-release-video-of-officers-warning-protestors-at-occupy-wall-street-march-across-brooklyn-bridge/