NYPD Cop Punches Protester at Occupy Wall Street, 10/14/11

Journalist and Reason contributor Michael Tracey is covering New York's Occupy Wall Street as it's happening. Above is footage he shot as the protesters marched through the street of Manhattan and had various stand-offs with the New York Police Department. Tracey himself reports being punched in the shoulder while filming.

In the above video, around the 1.40 mark, a white-shirted NYPD officer decks a protester in a green shirt (how the incident started is unclear). Reason.tv's Meredith Bragg edited the video above from about 20 minutes of footage.

Follow Tracey at http://twitter.com/mtracey

And read his October 7 story, "Occupy Wall Street: Beyond the Caricatures," at http://reason.com/archives/2011/10/07/occupy-wall-street-beyond-the

His website is http://mctracey.com

Reason's coverage of the Occupy movement can be found at
http://reason.com/topics/occupy-wall-street

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[truth2honor1]

@EternalChaosBringer Thump to the skull is a fiqure of speech, "wake-up", but your education is very clear. I dont want violence and its clear who does. Your comment says it all and dont be afraid to to the tube you are gay. Its o.k.... You are OWS, you are the caos, you are the problem with this country, your a baby who wants to take and not produce. You are the 99%.. Fool. Anyway good luck in your career with boxing. Make sure you wear protection when you rape!!!!

NOBAMA 2012

[EternalChaosBringer]

@truth2honor1 What's wrong? You wanna try to threaten me, but you can't take being threatened back? That figures... You're nothing more than a paper tiger... You make a hell of a lot of noise, but that's about all you're good for. Go vote for your stupid establishment neocon candidates... They're the exact same thing as the Obama you despise, but we'll just let you figure out that one for yourself. I'm fully comfortable with my support for the one TRUE candidate, Ron Paul.

[truth2honor1]

OWS is the left-wing Obama, Hollywood, Soros, SEIU, Moveon, MSNBC wanna be Tea-Party. Damn you all are sorry. You dont know how to protest, you cant get permits, you rape people, you kill people, you leave a 9month baby in a tent left to die, you have no cause and Obama is leading down a very dark path and you still will jump of a bridge for this idiot. When is the last video-evedince-proof-or report that there was any type of violent acts from the Tea-party at thier rallys? NOBAMA 2012

[EternalChaosBringer]

@truth2honor1 First and foremost, I'd love to see YOU try to thump me in the skull, hick boy... I'll have you in critical condition before you even know what hit you. I'm a trained boxer... Been training for the better part of a decade. I can quite literally dent steel with my punches if I get pissed enough. Second of all, Obama can drop on his knees and suck my dick after your neocon hick ass gets done being face-raped by me for trying to get tough with a REAL man.

[truth2honor1]

@EternalChaosBringer Are you saying Ron Paul supports OWS? Because in my statement I said nothing about Paul. Romney is Scum like your daddy Obama. Same person different color, and I dont mean skin. Ron Paul has been a part of the establishment for 100 fucking years, and If you think he walks into the the white house to change things you are a very challenged individual with need of a thump to the skull to wake you out of your PAUL fantasy.

NOBAMA 2012

[EternalChaosBringer]

@truth2honor1 So, who do you support for President... Gingrich or Frothy? Because Romney's most likely too similar to Obama for your liking, and Ron Paul cares too much about the American People for you to even give him a FIRST glance. Seriously, the ONLY people who would spout that type of insolent neocon rhetoric would be those that support Lizardboy or Scrotorum.

[EternalChaosBringer]

@FatherPatOphelia Fuck off, cop-lover. Why don't you just go rape a few more altar boys, catholic.

[CokeIsGoodForYa]

Love how all these idiots mob the person getting hit while the police man who hit him is try to dig him out to prevent him from getting hurt. Fuckin protesters and your pussy ass bull shit overreact to everything without looking deeper into it

[vinged]

all you fucking white shirts gonna be in jail when the peoples takes over !

[TheTrieye]

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