Police brutality at Occupy Berkeley 1:10am 12.22.11

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• #occupyberkeley
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• police
• brutality

[J450]

Okay, first off, you guys aren't looking at both sides. It's 1AM and these cops obviously don't want to be there. You are asked to back up, in which you don't. So a cop sees a bunch of young adults and teenagers who are yelling and not listening. Ofcourse he's going to beat you down. Ever though that maybe you guys are the cunts and not the cops?

[akenower]

@J450 They are denying citizens their right to peacefully assemble in the form of stealing their tents. What they are essentially saying is that we don't have the right to redress of grievances 24 hours a day. Honorable police disobey unconstitutional orders. I would argue that the state this country and planet is in requires a commitment to this struggle to change our relations as a species. Are you a cop?

[1900belle]

Doesn't exactly look like "police brutality." No pepper spray, no tasers, just batons and radios. Compared to SF, LA and Oakland, they seem to have shown restraint.

[akenower]

@1900belle Why did the cop need to take a running start and cross check the photographer in the neck? Was he trying to arrest him? What law was he breaking and why is that response appropriate?

[richmays]

If being pushed back like that is your idea of brutality then you are a real wimp. Nothing in that video seemed excessive. That's the problem with you occupy people, you howl and whine over nothing.

[akenower]

@richmays Tell that to Scott Olsen - the two tour Iraq war veteran - who has brain damage from a tear gas canister or Kayvan Sabeghi, another Iraq war veteran, who had his spleen ruptured from a severe beating by Oakland police.

[mineputzer]

I don't see anything wrong with the occupy movement, but the protesters I have a huge problem with. This wasn't police brutality. The protesters how got hit with batons refused to back up and I personally feel they deserved it. All of the tents that were in the park were filled with homeless people who couldn't know less about occupy. This was an excuse for them to put out their tents in the park and get the business of selling drugs to the Berkeley high students. Your video should be renamed.

[rezdog187]

Why don't we nuke Berkley the hippies are worse than terrorist s, I hope they all die of aids!

[sleeve318]

@richmays dont be an ignorant hippocrate. if a cop came up to you and told you that you couldnt do something that you had the right to do, then started hitting you. would you seriously not care and be the cops bitch?

[VelveteenSaint]

@dirtypunker86 Now wait a minute, we should regulate welfare scumbaggery more and corporate scumbaggery less? If it's wrong to pay an employee pennies an hour here to make American goods, it should be wrong to pay an employee pennies an hour anywhere to make American goods...

This crisis began on mortgage fraud - rich people preying on poor people because they had enough money to get away with it. That's what Occupy is about, and now the rich are hiring cops to crush dissent.

[dirtypunker86]

@VelveteenSaint the people i know on foodstamps and welfare just keep going along like they're getting what they're entitled to, going to shady bodegas to buy cigarettes with it, trading food for drugs or cash. a major problem is that these programs go basically unregulated. as far as the occupy movement is concerned, i can't get behind the idea of over regulating corporations, nobody is making them keep their businesses in the U.S, raising taxes is just going to kill more jobs

[VelveteenSaint]

@dirtypunker86 I'm pretty sure that everybody I know on welfare is working their asses off and would much rather be breaking $13K/year than hanging out on the dole. Yeah, there are people exploiting the system and scamming the gov't, but that's got nothing on the billions of bailouts we're printing to give away to banks...

[dirtypunker86]

@VelveteenSaint i'm a carpenter, you don't have to tell me about busting my ass for little to no pay, i built a house that is still empty due to this shitty market, and no, i'm not going to let someone just squat in it. there are a lot of rich dipshits taking advantage of people, however, there are just as many people if not more, exploiting our welfare system that was put in place to help those in need, not give out a free living. at least the rich have something to contribute

[VelveteenSaint]

@dirtypunker86 Tell it to the folks who got their riches by inheritance or force... or a landlord who charges people to live in a house that would otherwise go empty. Fact is, we got a lot of people working their asses off for very little, and a lot of people sitting around on big piles of assets and getting the silver spoon.

[dirtypunker86]

@VelveteenSaint yeah, i do. corporate greed doesn't really bother me. that's capitalism. All of the money that corporations have, was given to them by consumers for goods and services. standing in a street screaming "that's not fair!" is just childish. if you want something, fuckin earn it, because this is the USA and nothing is free

[aosterholdable]

This is "police brutality?" Wow.