JP Morgan-Chase arrests at Indiana University Bloomington.

A detective is shown using what some are calling excessive force. The students are arrested while a business school leader casually checks his laptop. A man who has been identified as a JP Morgan representative looks on while students are arrested.

This is from a press release from the event.

Five protesters arrested in anti JP Morgan-Chase demonstration on Indiana University Bloomington campus.


On Tuesday November 29th a group of students and community members held a non-violent sit in during a JP Morgan-Chase recruiting event. 5 young people were arrested; among them were 3 current IU students. The protestors were attempting to stop a JP Morgan-Chase recruiting event that took place in the Business School.

The protestors said that they were not against the students themselves but were against the actions of JP Morgan-Chase in regards to their government bailout, their funding of unnecessarily environmentally destructive industries, and their sale of toxic mortgage-backed securities as well as other fraudulent banking practices. The event started with a large group sitting down in front of the doors, (while still allowing anyone who was interested in leaving the room to do so) but as the police became more forceful some students stood up and moved back. Those arrested will appear in court tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1:30pm. Some of those arrested have prepared statements.

"I am protesting JPMorgan-Chase because by any notion of justice that
I have been brought up to understand, it should no longer exist. Indeed, its executive officers ought to be in prison. JPMorgan-Chase was among the major financial institutions that caused the 2008 financial collapse with its criminally greedy, fraudulent lending practices (in the forms of mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations). It should have failed then, but because of the influence Wall Street has over the government, it was bailed out, and it has used the funds from the bail-out to lobby against strong financial regulations in Congress and to pay its executives exorbitant bonuses. Worse, it has not ceased in their fraudulent practices. It has contributed enormously to the corruption of our democracy, has caused misery on a massive, debilitating scale within this country, and has a list of other crimes to its name that is too lengthy to enumerate. JPMorgan-Chase is a perfect example of the perversion of democracy and capitalism that is the state-corporate complex, and I do not believe that an entity this immoral should be allowed access to impressionable students." -Nick Greven

"We are oppressed by a system that is corrupt both in that individuals and corporations with power abuse their power and actively maintain their strength at the expense of others and in that the nature of the system promotes this condition using a web of illusions to pacify dissent with comfort and inbred apathy, effectively stagnating the positive evolution of human behavior. JP Morgan Chase has played a significant--though not solitary--role in this globally perverted economic structure, and thus action against this company is action against oppression." -Peter Oren


"I am participating in this non-violent action in order to bring light to the terribly destructive nature of mountain-top removal and the role JP Morgan-Chase plays in funding and supporting an environmental crime that effects so many human beings." -Cheyenne Kollum



A detective was also caught forcibly pushing and shoving the protesters as they walked down the hallway. Multiple cameras caught this action on video. The detective has been identified as Greg McClure.

Footage of Arrests, Police Excessive force, and statements from the Indiana University action against JP Morgan Chase Bank. Footage on the youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/actnrock is available for press use and all footage has been cleared with those who shot it.

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[thrawnjan]

that is Ash Soni not a "JP Representative"...

[actnrock]

@thrawnjan Thank you!  We will try to make the correction

[endthedrugwarvision]

@actnrock Can you make the 'correction' of the fact that you getting the police paid like this is the reason Adam Sarnecki, the porn store girl, and Don Swank are dead? Claim the kills of your failures. Please and thanks. When you're done killing people in my town, it's not too late to 'end the drug war' although the people you've helped murder this year by being this fucking stupid cannot be brought back to life.

[endthedrugwarvision]

IUPD is the most coked out organization of all time. The people involved in this demonstration should be held accountable for not working to ' end the drug war' that murdered Adam Sarnecki, Don Swank, James Lerg, Brett Wood, Road Dog, Lauren Spierer and so many others in this town just this year.

[spde114]

@logdog89

lol pretty hot? She is smoking!

[logdog89]

IS there anyone else that thinks the lady cop holding ppl back is pretty hot?