Police have released two videos that show officers warning hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protestors who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday that demonstrators will be arrested if they do not get off the roadway.
In each video, an NYPD officer is reading a statement into a bullhorn.
In the first video, the officer says in part:
“I am ordering you to leave this roadway now. If you do so voluntarily, n0 charges will be placed against you. If you refuse to leave, you will be placed under arrest and charged with disorderly conduct. If you do not wish to be arrested, you must leave this area now.”
As the officer is giving the warning, protestors can be heard chanting what sounds like “Take the bridge!” and “This is what democracy looks like!”
Dumbasses.
This really pisses me off because if they focused this energy they might actually accomplish something. I’m beginning to think that’s the point.
While the protestors are marching around Wall Street and chanting about greed, they aren’t costing the bankers a dime. They also aren’t supporting a primary challenger to Obama.
They aren’t even talking about him.
Completely agree.
This particular group has no idea that Obama is not their “friend.” They are that clueless, I believe.
Excellent post, Myiq!
This is totally ineffective if they wanted to actually get something done. They should be marching to their Senators and Reps and the White House demanding additional regulation and taxation of Wall Street, and threaten to vote the bums out if they do not act.
This is a tactic designed to pit one set of Americans against the other — neither of whom include people on Wall Street, who, by the way, is likely laughing at these idiots.
djmm
Honk!
Their first clue as to what asses they look like in the public eye should have been the downright eagerness of FOX news to cover them.
If they can make a message that resonates with the working class, they will get somewhere. Stick to the economy and jobs and how wall street and banksters have done a lot of harm. Keep it simple. Could be interesting. But sadly I’m not sure they get that or even agree with that if they got it.
“Stick to the economy and jobs and how wall street and banksters have done a lot of harm. Keep it simple.”
Maybe they’d get around to that (and to blaming Obama) if they weren’t being personally attacked. By the liberals who are already opposing Obama. Like us.
Yep, it’s all our fault. No wait, IBSP.
IACF
It’s not a protest, it’s an angry flash mob. I can call that stupid if I want.
Judging by the billions of dollars of CORPORATE technology they’re using, I can call them hypocrites too.
How much corporate technology are we using to post here?
Look, the fact that a few corporations have all the technology sewed up — is one REASON for protesting them.
If you are saying “enforce the law, reinstate Glass Steagall, and perp walk the illegal market manipulators” you look fine with a cell phone and laptop.
Tweeting “Kill Capitalism” on your cellphone just makes you an idiot.
“enforce the law, reinstate Glass Steagall, and perp walk the illegal market manipulators”
You’re smart with phrases. How would you say that in c. 15 letters?
It’s not much more complicated than that. Enforce already existing financial laws (don’t let people work around them so easily as they are today), break up the big banks (separate saving from speculating), send some top people to jail (set an example for moral hazard). Think that’s more words than WMCB used. How bout: Enforce Laws, Breakup Banks, Jailtime.
“How would you say that in c. 15 letters?”
Run Hillary run!
Maybe they should stop being asshats.
Got hope? (snark font)
Hey protest people, Obama is just not that into you guys. While you eat cold pizza on the streets, or cold damp holding cells of New York …. the man who’s chain you really need to jiggle was here:
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/10/02/obamas-swank-night/
I suppose $300 could have fed quite a few of you ?
I saw a sign in one of the pics: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. Who are YOU?”
I don’t think these people have a clue. Sheesh
Hey, I’m in moderation here again!
I blame David Atkins.
I talked to my university senior daughter this afternoon and she said they (OWS) were idiots. Why honey I asked? Because they need to be shutting down DC for passing and signing shit budgets and laws and not listening to constituents.
Smart kid ! Mine figured it out, went from anarchist to business owner, voila, instant conservative. It’s really not a bad thing, just funny how kids behave when mumsie and popsie cut them loose 😉
Good point. Great point. Would make a good poster or flyer.
Now, how to get them to think about this? (Hint: I don’t think insulting them will help.)
Who cares? Do we need a reason?
Why am I in moderation again? Several times tonight.
Is insulting the rest of the country (aka Teabaggers) helping ?
All I know is that if asshats were to block bridges in the Bay Area, I’d want each demonstrator to be arrested. I’d be pissed.
In a real Arab country, wouldn’t they just be shot ? And those kids had a real reason to be mad…..no work opportunities and dictators with itchy trigger fingers 😦
In a real Arab country, they’d start with tear gas.
NYPD started with nets and pepper spray. After the girls were netted.
The Tea Party didn’t have week-long sit-ins waiting for the media. They went to town halls, they had rallies on the weekend and holidays so they could still go to work. Then they voted. That’s what a movement looks like.
HONK!
I don’t remember the Tea Partiers getting arrested for blocking bridges or anything.
Tea parties are also famous for being incredibly law-abiding and leaving areas cleaner than they found them. They actually brought trash bags to their rallies, and cleaned every scrap up as they left.
They also didn’t futilely yell at the banks for getting bailed out. They yelled at the ones doing the bailing.
That reminds me of some of the stories about the 8/28 “Glenn Beck” rally. They had a permit to hold the rally, but park employees apparently left the garbage cans full so no one could use them. People knew the drill and brought their own bags.
The important thing is that media was obsessed with using a measuring tape on the event. CBS found a place that gave them a low-ball estimate of 85,000. But those people voted a few months later and turned Congress upside down.
Days ~ I was at the Beck rally (he paid for everything out of his own pocket, though raised a few million for the troops that day). I walked to the event at 6 a.m. from the mid mall L’Enfant hotel. Funny, I noticed EVERY Mall trashcan was already full ? At 6 a.m.? The museums closed around 5 or 7 pm the night before. I never thought about that again til you just posted that. 🙂
Hell, they didn’t even get arrested for openly carrying firearms.
No, but the black guy carrying a weapon is accused of being racist on MSNBC.
Tea Partier’s? – that ol’ ‘Astroturf’ movement…
I wonder what Pelosi thinks of the Tea Party now – biggest wipeout in midterm history, pushing legislation ever more to the right… I imagine she’s thrilled with her choice of Obama – after all, she’s still the most powerful woman in Washington (and don’t you try and tell her otherwise).
Those of you wondering if this OWS thing had a whiff of the manufactured about it, here is spoonbabyspoon giving it his best White House spin: http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/excellent-beginning-by-david-atkins.html
A strong piece of evidence, I would think.
Having a protest about the banks and the economy with no mention whatsoever of Obama is like having an anti Iraq war rally where George Bush’s name never comes up.
Yes spoony gets it right in the last paragraph ….
Yes, the arrests were needless because they had a choice to leave the bridge, but they just sat down. Thank God they live in this country!
Inflame passion? How about for those stuck in the traffic trying to get to their JOBS ? I’m sure what was inflamed was not passion.
I seriously doubt they booked any small children.
And if you want to go do civil disobedience, don’t take your small kids, moron. I’m more pissed at the parents who had small kids there to use as narrative and meme tools than I am at the police.
That kid keeps getting younger and younger. Tomorrow it will be a baby.
If they didn’t arrest a parent because the kid was with them, every idiot would bring their kid the next time. Or the police could have left the kids with no supervision.
The two big peace marches I attended in Dc and NYc had many families pushing babies, the elderly and disabled. Though the media managed to find the kooks, the nasty Bush signs, and the LaRouche Nazi’s. Oh wait, the media found the kooks, nasty Obama signs and the LaRouche Nazi’s at the DC Tea Party rally too. I think they also found the ONE kook with the poster of dead fetuses? Got’em on both sides since some on the anti-war side have dead babies from collateral damages.
Whose side is the media on anyhow ? 😛
Their corporate masters
“Obama Grassroots Challenge Fails to Meet Goal”
Heh, heh poor baby.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/obama-grassroots-challenge-fails-to-meet-goal/
My Dad for President
It’s a little scary to think she did have the chance to vote for Obama.
Wonder if she did?
O-ba-MA! O-ba-MA!
http://www.infowars.com/occupy-wall-street-protesters-call-totalitarian-government-re-election-of-obama/
“The official Occupy Wall Street website vehemently supports Obama’s tax agenda, again in the deluded belief that Obama, the ultimate Wall Street puppet, genuinely wants to go after big corporations who use loopholes to avoid paying income tax.”
Apparently one of the protestors held a sign that said, “A government is an entity which holds the monopolistic right to initiate force.”
The saddest part about some of these protesters is that they seem to have no concept of what civil liberties are. A Gov with the power to step in and force the agenda you want on everyone else is a Gov that can just start shooting protesters.
It reminds me of a protester last year that had a sign in Oregon that said, “America is a fascist state!” Dude, if your standing on a public street corner with a sign like that and still breathing, you aren’t living in a fascist state. Not yet anyway. Keep advocating that the Gov be given even more power and we’ll see what happens
No, the OWS website is critical of Obama. One of their forum posts makes fun of him and says they should picket his fundraising event. Another is sceptical of him, says they should write him letters trying to get him to support them, but the comments are all anti-Obama. I posted them on another thread and at http://bemused-leftist.livejournal.com/#entry_118504
Have you found anything at their website that actually supports him?
Inforwars is full of BS.
SO maybe NYPD behavior is kind of relevant, after all….
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“JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple.”
READ MORE AT: JPMorganChase.com – The donation is currently story 13 of 20 on their homepage:
http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Home/home.htm
So much for the rich giving back.