Police Violence during 03/20 2003 Anti-War Protests in SF

[ocseans]

What was that clown with the pink hair doing going for the officer with a baton. In half these situations people seem to want a reaction from the police.

[Mephistonia]

evans,what makes you think I am liberal? just because I refuse to support an illegal war and think Bush is the worst prez? Newsflash: most people feel the same way.I dont spit in the face of any victims,just the current criminal in the whitehouse and his blind followers.

[evansville70]

You might want to read popular mechanics report on the the twin towers. Do you realize that society does not take you seriously and people like you are marginalized

[ScarTownJunkie]

these were peaceful protests, the pigs turned it violent

[kingconst07]

The purpose of the 3/20/03 protests in the US was to shut down several major American cities. These protests weren't peaceful at all.

[iiiiihexiiiii]

I wonder if they realize the irony of a violent anti-war protest.

Probably not since they are cowardly douchebags.

[Mephistonia]

evansville,you're another Bush sycophant.I bet you get off knowing that American soldiers are being killed FOR NO GOOD GODAMN REASON.You pathetic neocon.

[evansville70]

Like i really care what your antiamerican liberal ass thinks of me. Like you really care about the troops. How come you and the rest of the hippie scum are not jumping up and down screaming at Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed for breaking their promise by bringing the troops home. Funny since the Democrats became the Majority in congress you have not heard much about Iraq.

[boomcity312]

Livin in fear, fear their cops, fear their jails, fear their laws livin in fear fear their plan fear their guns fear there hand Livin in fear fear their hate fear boots, night sticks and mace Fear their power ignorance and greed fear their laws and the hate they breed "Fear Not"

[Manthing32]

lmao swatted that pink haired mutant.

[ukiahcat]

I think the police did an outstanding job. Yes I do support protesting but don't blockade normal people from going to work. I have to make a living in these times of economic downturn and rising costs. I am against the war but don't block the people from doing regular business. You're not hurting the corporate big wigs only hurting the working people that need to work for a living. CEOs have the luxgury of taking a day off but we don't.

[sytby]

Then get up and organize yourselves. Do you think you get 2 days off every week or overtime pay for more than 6 days in a row bcuz CEOs are generous? You generate the profit the your bosses so devoutly worships. They need you, not the other way around. Take advantage of that fact and don't let them play you against each other. If we workers don't all stand together on this, the cops'll be doing "an outstanding job" on all of us, eventually.

[evansville70]

The good guys (cops) 1

the bad guys (anarchist) 0

law and order restored

anarchy deafeated

Thank you police officers

[golcynski]

To serve a protect.

Governments JOB is to protect its citizens not abuse them. Who makes the law that Government can own your children and send them to war for their own selfish purposes.

The whole war on terror is a f**#* joke.

Yes the people from caves attacked US.

We didn't know of attack on 911, but since the war on terror we were able to stop any Terror attack on US soil. What a bunch of lies. We go from 0 efficiency to 100% efficiency against Suicide bombers, that is IMPOSSIBLE.

[evansville70]

The cops did protect. They protect society from thugs like this video

[golcynski]

Don't get me wrong, there needs to be order, but at anytime Police uses force on peaceful protestesters that is a violation of the constitution.

We wouldn't have to protest if the TV did it for us. The Television doesn't cover these events. The TV makes us feel like we are isolated from anything that is going on in the world.

What news you get over the AIR, nothing nothing nothing.

Anyhow, all I try to accomplish here is better the world not anger anyone.

Peace

[evansville70]

I just was wondering what is you plan for a better world?

[golcynski]

Join Ron Paul in his quest to Educate American public.

I am probably Half Your age, so I give up Educating you. That simply can't be done. Slowly I am loosing my energy. nobody cares and when you tell the truth it pisses everyone off. So continue making fun of me and other people and enjoy more GOVcorruption. Thanks

Hitler quotes:

The bigger the lie the more people believe it.

When you repeat lie long enough everyone will believe in it.

How fortunate for leaders that masses don't think.

[golcynski]

Just looked at your profile and you already seem to Have Ron Paul congrats.

[evansville70]

I like Ron Paul on his domestic issues. But I am disappointed that some of his followers are "911 truthers" and I decided not to vote for Ron Paul when in the South Carolina primary debate Ron Paul blamed America for 911.

[golcynski]

Who other to blame for terrorism (notice I don't say 911) than ourselves. We're in their back yard all the time, its their private property they have the right to use force to get us out, just like you have right to shoot anyone who enters your house uninvited.

They commit suicide bombings in Iraq because that is the only way they can inflict mass casualties for their own family deaths.

Over 1,500,000 Iraquis died in the name of freedom, how disgusting is that.

[evansville70]

What is disgusting is nut cases like you spit in the face on 911 victims by saying 911 is a joke. I will tell my friends on you tube what a piece of crap you are. You are part of blame america first an the reason that Ron Paul is yesterdays news. This crap mantra saying that 1.5 million iraqis have been killed even the U.N. says that is not true. The only thing is evil is you

[golcynski]

What evidence you have that we spit into 911 victims face? We are the ones that want truth to come out, we do not want the 3000 lives to be forgotten. The whole reason we speak it out is to glorify and condemn the ones responsible for it, and evidence points out its a lot more complicated than we're told.

The TV tells you to hate 911 truers, but try to understand they are the ones Glorifying the dead, not only civilians, military but also innocent human beings. I cannot understand you.

[evansville70]

You saying that that you can not understand me is like a Jim Jones follower saying they can not understand me. How you "spit in the face" of 911 victims families is by saying that 911 was a inside job. You really want the truth then look up "oplan bojinka" the terrorist were plaining this since the 90's

[golcynski]

They why do families of 911 victims question the official story? They spit into their own face?

You know little about physics I hope.

If you dropped a bowling ball from the top of WTC when building started collapsing it would have hit the ground at the same time it took the building to collapse.

Now tell me what allows a rigid building 200,000 tons of welded steel and million tons of concrete to turn to dust in 10 seconds. To drop to ground at rate of FREE fall.

I makes no sense, so ????

[golcynski]

Please watch this about FOOD and decide yourself if you're being lied to or told the truth.

watch?v=0bFWKgtUAjQ

[golcynski]

Please 911 is a joke, Our Gov tells us they kill themselves because they hate our freedoms, then why is Government the one taking our freedoms away. Oh and if the top of WTC was so heavy and solid as to crush through remaining 80 floors why did it turn to dust when it hit the floor. The whole official 911 story doesn't add up. It wasn't until last year that I started doubting 911 for what it was, and that was because I didn't think our Gov would be so evil. But once Gov damages your CHILD...

[golcynski]

Even if our own Gov didn't do 911.

Why did they abandon all the safety workers?

Why did they enact Patriot Act?

Why did they lie about air safety?

Why don't they take care of wounded and sick?

if they don't care about national heroes, why would they Give a sh*# about JOE DOE.

911 was a catalyst event that let them do whatever they want, because we are scared of some RagHeads killing us, just think, there is no Gov capable of stopping suicide bombers so why haven't one happened here in US

[golcynski]

FROM KUCINICH(.)us website ad US congressman.

14. Strength through Peace: You'll remember when I led the effort against the ill-conceived Iraq war, which has now cost more than 4,100 US soldiers' lives, cost U.S. taxpayers between $3 trillion and $5 trillion, and resulted in the deaths of more than a million Iraqis. We must bring our troops home and end the war. We must engage in diplomacy. We must reduce the military budget, and we must stop outrageous cost overruns by the likes of Halliburton

[evansville70]

Spoken just like Jimmy Carter.

[golcynski]

You know what, all Ron Paul said was that we need to know the truth about 911 so we need another investigation.

Since when another investigation is against the law, since when its spitting into dead people. We are afraid of the truth, because everything we believe in would turn to sh*!. DENY911

Questioning 911 in 21st Century is like questioning Catholic Church in 15th Century. They immediately want to burn you at stake.

The Earth is Round, its time to wake up and accept the evidence of 911.

[ShiekYerbooty]

Police State USA, what are you gonna do about it ?

[jeraklidis]

I work in SF and I have no idea why clueless liberals will defend terrorists. I just dont understand how they jump around for peace when the other side wants to burn them alive. Every suburban kid wants to rehash the 60s and try to play their suave wannabe beatnik drum. These Ginsberg/Kerouac ditto heads lounge drinking their fair trade coffee preaching how Obama will save us all with Mega Welfare while the rest of us are in those buildings trying to work. Basically get a job hippie.

[columbusclipper]

Those liberals in the video, jeraklidis, are not defending terrorists when they protest the Iraq war, for their whole point is that Iraq had nothing to do with the September 11th attacks. You throw out a bunch of stereotypes as a way to blow smoke over the substance of their argument. And I don't believe the first thing that comes to a liberal's mind when they think of Obama is "Mega Welfare."

[jeraklidis]

It allowed them to rebuild, strengthen, and create what you see today. If you want to blame anyone maybe your local Democrat for being a new age pussy. You voted in a new Congress and still no change... Is that my fault? As for free speech... if you notice they are in the middle of Market st probably the busiest street in SF. Its very simple they were blocking traffic on the main strip in the middle of downtown... I say they should of beat them harder.

[columbusclipper]

I saw cops attack people on the sidewalk. Yeah, I blame Democrats for lacking the courage to vote against funding the Iraq war. Absolutely. I don't blindly support Democrats. Clinton was a disgrace on many levels, O.K.?!

[jeraklidis]

Now we leave a country with no leader and no government and billions in oil... Its simple put 2 + 2 together. Now if you are protesting the principles of the initial attack its a little late for that more like 5 years too late. As for September 11th this is the first preemtive strike we've done as a country. Its about time too. If you remember Clinton's minimal involvement was worse than full fledged involvement.

[columbusclipper]

Well, there are two debates here that you blurred into one. 1) Is pre-emptive war ever O.K? I'd say, "no," not pre-emptive war, but I appreciate the other view on that question more than on debate issue #2--2) Was it wise to engage in premptive war in Iraq. Absolutely not, and I have big problems with people who think we did. And to reach the conclusion that Clinton's supposed minimal involvement led to 9/11, I'd say that's a wild assertion to make.

[jeraklidis]

Ok ok lets break down a few things. Lets say a malevolent leader wants to kill your father which has the money and power to do it. Do you stand by and wait for it to happen? Especially when you are the world's strongest leader? Prior to Gulf War 1 Iraq had the 4th largest army in the world with an active nuclear/chemical/biological program. Now lets talk Gulf War 2 remember Afgahistan after we left in the 1980s? OBL created the worlds largest gang with heroin dope money.

[columbusclipper]

As far as the WMD argument you are making, I suggest you watch "Buried 60 Minutes interview" on YouTube. Just type "Buried 60 Minutes interview" in the YouTube search engine.

[columbusclipper]

Better yet, type "Project of a New American Century" in the YouTube search engine.

[mahowel]

Way to show only half of the story. What did they do to get arrested? You will fit right in with the leftist media.

[columbusclipper]

What did they do to get arrested? They exercised their first-amendment rights to free speech. They're just as bad as the terrorists, eh?

[mahowel]

So you know for a fact from what you saw in this video that is what happened. Another CNN sheep ripe for the picking, bahaaaa.

[sytby]

Well, I know from being one of the people grabbed on the sidewalk, handcuffed, frog-marched out into the street, ordered to sit down in the street, and then, after 6 hours in Pier 21, informed that I'd been charged with "pedestrian in roadway" that that is indeed what happened.

[iiiiihexiiiii]

You shouldn't of been standing in the roadway. Get a fucking job.

[bigajosep]

lol watch a bunch of pussies

[columbusclipper]

lol, what a waste of DNA you are.

[GearoidSullivan]

sadly ironic, but the world is not watching. the mainstream media doesn't report on it. with the economic free-fall underway this is just the beginning. there will be more scenes like this in the future

[gocolts1]

The reason the mainstream media isn't playing this is because there is nothing here. I didn't see any police brutality as the title suggests. I did see a bunch of spoiled brats trying to shut a city down to "protest". What the hell kind of message do they think people are getting because these lunatics shut the city down anyway??

[columbusclipper]

"What the hell kind of message do they think people are getting because these lunatics shut the city down anyway??"

The message is that the issue of the Iraq war is important enough for us as American citizens to interrupt the daily routine of our everyday lives to engage in political dialog. That's the message. In your mind, lunatics seem to be people who not only disagree with you politically, but are people willing to make their disagreements public.

[gocolts1]

I welcome decent. That is not the problem. With the whole country having so many financial difficulties, this is not the best way to protest. Why do they have to make so many people late for work?? Or what about the people who get charged if they miss their doctor appointment because of this protest?? What about the ambulances trying to get to someone in need??? G*d forbid someone loses their job or their life because of selfish people trying to make their point.

[gocolts1]

I think these protesters could protest without trying to ruin peoples lives in the process.What about the people who get charged with a doctor visit because of this childish behavior.What about the guy who might lose his job because he is so late for work because of this protest?What about the ambulance who can't get to someone in need of help because of this protest.Heaven forbid if someone was to lose their life over such childish,self centered behavior.

[sytby]

What about the lives, livelihoods, homes, and families of millions of people being destroyed at the very moment that all this occured? What about the ambulance that couldn't get to someone's bombed-out house because the road had been bombed, too? Thousands had already lost their lives over behaviour far more childish and self-centered: waging a war of choice, of aggression. What the Nuremburg judges called "the supreme crime."

[nataskaos]

Much like the Seattle WTO "riots", these pigs instigate the crowd and then start swinging on anything dare speak up.

these pigs should all be fired.

keep up the protesting. keep up the civil goodness.

[DonSimonBolivar]

Bush take your economic stimulus plan and SHOVE IT! Now the government wants to help the people out? When the economy is in a recession? You know what Shove your government policies in your pluming stock market. And tell all the Rich people who rally around the market to have a nice fall! You didn't care to stimulate us when the economy was doing good did you? So know people take your rebates and don't spend shit! Send your government a message! WE DEMAND AN END TO GOVERNMENT ABUSE! AND TAXATION

[jcsgeddes]

This is a simple case of 2 few police injected into a situation to control it and they become scared b/c they're outnumbered. The people who were "protesting" prob. didn't have a permit to use the city street/sidewalk for their event. Therefore they had no "right" to be doing what they were doing. You can't just go out in 2 the middle of the street or take up a whole sidewalk and not expect the cops 2 show up. The cops were just reacting the way they were b/c they felt threatened by the mob.

[HeyG]

why is the video dated 03/20 2003?

[oscarbeenit]

Welcome to Nazi America.

[tornadohurricane5]

Anybody who thinks change is going to happen in this country without real uprising is delusional. Look at these violent cops sticking their clubs into the stomachs of women. Most 9/11 Truthers are just trying to stay friendly out of selfish fear. The fact is that uprising is required. Sorry but this is a fact. There is a reason why the American Revolution was not nice and pretty. Denying the true nature of how nefarious our government is by remaining stupidly friendly is failure.

[alancraig123]

That was a great shot in the stomach. Stupid bitch "the world is watching the world is watching" who cares....most of the world laughs at America and this is another reason as to why we can sit back and laugh. We aint gonna help your sorry asses. You have fucked up the Earth enough. So like all great powers have in the past. Take it like a bitch and move over for China and Europe once again :-)

[jcsgeddes]

Europe has no chance of a resurgence of power. Every european country's birth rate is falling & the only ppl left in europe will be muslim (can U say hello Sharia Law & the dawn of the New Dark Ages). China won't either, b/c their economy is too closely tied to the U.S. (as is europa's FYI) a collapse of the U.S. spells economic doom for the rest of the world. China is bordered by too many nations that don't trust it. Japan, Russia, India, Pakistan, S.E. Asia, Mongolia. U need the USA 2 survive!

[alancraig123]

I understand all that and know where the economic power lies. But every superpower falls. The UK and France used to rule countries, it was called Colonialism, they spoke our language, we made them salute our flag and monarchy, use our currency then we gave them back their stuff, they dropped our currencey, as will all the other nations who now see China as the dominant force. Soon the dollar will collapse and its very serious the epidemic which will occur in America. Accept it OK!

[ShutTheSpockUp79]

I don't think so. There is 2 much riding on America's continued success in the world. All that is going to happen is that Americans will save more, spend less (which is bad for the rest of the world), and increase the value of their dollar by only doing that. China isn't a force only that it is cheating w/ it's monetary & economic policy. If people start trading in yuans instead of dollars, you'll see a dramatic delcine in the yuan's value. Over time the dollar will rebound and the US will be ok

[alancraig123]

Nicely said :-)

loool at America...I have long awaited for the day it exploded in this manner and desroyed itself...the American people have been dumbed down, and take this beating cause they haven't had a taste of freedom or resisted and had a free mind. So like sheep they shall be battered and take it. And go back to their sheep lives and take the police state as it happens as its too late for them now. Welcome to Nazi Germany ladies and gents as Alex Jones told you after 9/11 - inside job

[va1ha11a]

These cops should get fired.

They are all totally jacked up and at the brink of loosing selfcontrol, while they really should stay calm.

Instead of protecting the crowd they seem to be in fear and ready to beat the shit out of women...

They got bodyarmor, helmets and batons. what are they afraid of? They are retarded idiots and not cops. they are a disgrace for any real good policeman!

[WorldWarThreeNews]

Once again, just like the Atlanta footage, yelling did exactly what now?

[keystone14]

sadly...the world is not watching but it should be. Our media is completely controlled and the only thing I saw on the news were a few "success stories" about Iraq.

[overpeer]

OMG, is incredible see that in a "democratic" country, although ... ultimately in USA ... this can be normal.

[JeremyZ83]

The cop @ 2:39 should be killed. No... tortured.

[JeremyZ83]

I think the people should demand the DEATH PENALTY whenever a police, cop or anyone in a position of government authority abuses that power. 1 offense -- DEATH. Then you'd see the shit stop.

But no, its all about pro-government and nothing for the people.

[AceBanger]

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There a GOOD start ... It is TIME ...

I am just 1 of many Leader's That are in process of bring the People Together & Soon We will ALL Join ...

Do YOUR Part What ever it is ...

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[gudeljb]

The Revolution BEGINS :)

[fuel20]

Fucking cop at the 2:39 mark hitting that poor innocent person. They are just trying to incite a riot.

[Pokeeeeeee]

Maybe we need a fucking riot!

[szalasiferenc88]

Americans just still don't get it, with some useless protesting, they gain nothing, a few pigs just kick the sh..t out of even a few hundred protesters if they want. Those people have to do much more than just protest, if they want to take they own Country back from those parazites.

[bluenote71]

"Those people." ? I constructively disagree: I put myself and you in that group.

We have to do more.

[DennyMclain2008]

it doesn't appear that these protestors could have been anymore peaceful before the police started the violence.