From: Press TV
[VIDEO] US police crackdown on media covering Occupy LA
Sat Dec 3, 2011 5:44PM GMT
A recent video has emerged on the Internet showing the U.S. police crackdown on media, this time by beating a photojournalist. Tyson Zoltan Heder, who was photographing the events of Occupy Los Angeles and the LAPD evicting the protesters, was beaten by the police and had his camera taken. Heder was then detained and charged with "assault
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/213614.html
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Occupy LA: The Death of Mainstream Media 12.01.2011 Stephen Box
RETHINKING LA -The LAPD's full-force eviction of Occupy LA from City Hall Park left a very crowded high road in its wake as the Mayor, the LAPD, and the occupiers all shared credit for their commitment to respect, restraint, and cooperation as the two month long occupation came to an end.
An estimated 1400 LAPD officers participated in the well planned operation to evict the Occupy LA encampment which had swelled to about 1000 participants who had prepared for the confrontation with training in nonviolent civil disobedience.
As the LAPD shed its hard core reputation and as the Occupy LA movement held to its nonviolent principles, it was the media who caved in and who were left behind as casualties on the battlefield.
Two nights earlier, the evening of the Mayor's deadline, it was the media who drew the LAPD's first threat of arrest when they swarmed to the Occupy LA encampment in such numbers that they prevented Commander Andy Smith from crossing the street from LAPD headquarters to City Hall.
http://www.citywatchla.com/lead-stories/2541-occupy-la-the-death-of-mainstrea...
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People Locked in Tiny Cages, Crying in Pain: What I Saw and Heard When the LAPD Threw Me in Jail for Exercising My Right to Protest the Oligarchy
Don't believe the PR. There was nothing peaceful or professional about the LAPD's attack on Occupy LA -- or the way detainees were later treated.
December 2, 2011 |
Editor's note: Yasha Levine, editor of the Exhiled.com, spent a . Here's his account of the crackdown on Occupy LA.
http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/153303/people_locked_in_tiny_cages,_cryi...
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Report: Police went undercover to spy on Occupy LA
Sat Dec 3, 2011 2:5PM GMT
Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before this week's raid to gather information on protesters' intentions, according to media reports Friday.
None of the officers slept at the camp, but tried to blend in during the weeks leading up to the raid to learn about plans to resist or use weapons against police, a police source told the Los Angeles Times. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing. Boston
FACTS & FIGURES
On November 30, police in riot gear and biohazard suits removed anti-Wall Street activists from their camp at Los Angeles City Hall, arresting nearly 300 people and fencing off the area. Reuters
More than 1,400 police officers raided the camp and dismantled what was left of the tent city that stood for two months. chron.com
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/213574.html
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Police reportedly went undercover at Occupy LA
Reports suggest police used undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA camp to find out protesters' intentions Associated Press guardian.co.uk, Saturday 3 December 2011 07.39 GMT
Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before this week's raid to gather information on the anti-Wall Street protesters' intentions, according to media reports.
None of the officers slept at the camp, but they tried to blend in during the weeks leading up to the raid to learn about plans to resist or use weapons against police, a police source told the Los Angeles Times. The source spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing.
The undercover work yielded information that some protesters were preparing bamboo spears and other potentially dangerous weapons in advance of an expected eviction, none of which were used, according to the City News Service, which first reported the story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/03/occupy-la-undercover-detectives-raid
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China Threatens World War Three If Anyone Attacks Iran 2011by StephenHannardADGUK150,456 views
@roomwithapointofview
If you're willing to show your (lack-of) intellect in the fields of psychology, economics, and more, please drop me a message. I'll be sure to read your excellent reasons why problems occur in todays society!
H4134 1 month ago
@roomwithapointofview
You can pretend that you're thinking about the people responsible should be jailed, which is fine, but your mindset is just a pollutant to modern thinking, or finding ways to improve society, or the human civilisation.
Most likely you have not looked into reasons why people behave like it, you simply believe that if someone did something 'bad', they're evil, that's it.
You're just clouding your judgement, rather than looking at both sides, in detail.
H4134 1 month ago
@roomwithapointofview
What you're forgetting is that society is money driven. If cops are paid to "Protect" the area from being breached. They will do it.
Obviously, what they see is that they're protecting the area.
The picture on the otherside, protestors see it as an assault.
Now when you look at the big picture about why people work.
Why? They need money to live. Everything essential of living, requires money in "modern society".
That is what you're forgetting.
H4134 1 month ago
@roomwithapointofview
You're making out that assault and child molestation is the same? You're being a bit too dramatic over it if you ask me.
Obviously you know that I will comment about the molestation. Ofcourse I will. You're looking at it being a felony, and that's it. You don't look at how morally sick that is, compared to the police using force.
What you fail to see is the moral side of things, about how everyone thinks, their reason behind it.
H4134 1 month ago
@roomwithapointofview ps, I don't give a rats ass why you did it, you did it.
roomwithapointofview 1 month ago
@H4134 It is their choice to do it or not. In fact your whole argument is, you had to molest the child or lose your job. If they held a gun to your head, and you complied, you chose to comply.
Be a adult, own it.
Now before you make some dumb comment about the molestation not being the same, i believe assault and child molestation are felonies.
Now before you waste anymore brain power assuming what I am, spend some time thinking about when you do something, you are responsible for it.
roomwithapointofview 1 month ago
@roomwithapointofview
More importantly, money prevents people from working freely. Seeing as an employer can simply fire someone for "Not doing their job".
Cops live in fear, as much as the public does. The cops, or anyone in any working place can't afford losing jobs, now I am sure you're grown up and somewhat intelligent to understand that fact.
H4134 1 month ago
@roomwithapointofview
Easier said than done. You've obviously not looked into it indepth. You believe that cops can just simply act in "Good morals".
It's in human nature that they want to live. Society revolves around money.
They'd rather want to keep their job so they can have a chance of living. Which in all honesty is fair. Now I can make a reasonable assumption that you've never had a job, or been a cop, or perhaps some random Alex Jones follower.
H4134 1 month ago
@H4134 That does nothing to negate a person of freewill or the responsibility of their actions.. They choose to behave this way.
roomwithapointofview 1 month ago
@roomwithapointofview
Whilst you're forgetting the fact that self-preservation is the first thing that happens.
If a cop did not obey his orders - the cop lose his job. The cops would consider themselves and their family before thinking about protests, they need their jobs to pay for their needs.
H4134 2 months ago