Occupy Congress Protesters De-Arrest Fellow Protester

Occupy Congress protesters rip one of there own out of the grasp of Capital Police, saving him from arrest.

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[zachRrosa]

idk about this, to me it looks like they were harassing the police, especially by pulling the protester back. The police showed a great sense of restraint here by not fighting back. We need to try and become friends with the police and help them understand our point of view rather than antagonize them, it only hurts the cause.

[blazedroots]

@zachRrosa wrong wrong wrong on so many levels. with the ndaa we should let the police take our comrades? fuck that. never let them take your people. wake up. they wouldnt let us on a public sidewalk, who was harrassing who?

[ryanapple1111]

Good thing they didn't use the tear gas that was handed to an officer at 0:23

[blazedroots]

@ryanapple1111 @ryanapple1111 wow, i didnt see that until you pointed it out. that cops with the pepperspray refused to identify himself just before this

[killinthemachines]

THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN EVERY TIME THE STORMTROOPERS TRY TO SEPARATE AND IMPRISON YOUR FELLOW ACTIVISTS!!!! THE NDAA IS REAL, PEOPLE CAN DISAPPEAR, DONT LET THEM HARM YOUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS!

[Freecell82]

Cops are arresting people arbitrarily with no intention of charging them. De-arrests are a wonderful thing.

[Ne0mega]

@zachRrosa Have you ever seen how violent the arab spring got? Quit deluding yourself. OWS protesters are patty-cake players compared to the Arab spring protests. Jesus dude, get a fucking clue.

[Ne0mega]

@zachRrosa I have a hard time believing you have ever been to one of these, if you had, you would understand a little bit more about the movement. Don't say "our" movement, until you are ready to put your ass on the line.

[adhocrat1]

Like the end of Battle at Kruger

[zachRrosa]

@Death2Evil Its just that your kind of rhetoric does not gain public opinion it just helps to further brand us as anarchists, socialists, communists, anti-capitalist, and anti-american (all used interchangeably of course). Protesters job is not to fight police it is to suffer by the police in such a way to outrage the public into real action. Sorry if it sounds defeatist or sad but thats the only way that works

[chr0305]

@blazedroots true... but still we have to be polite to be respected, to be heard.

but yeah, the police theese days, are somewhat "the criminals" they're there to help and support us, some of them do, but some are corrupt and do as the please.

[Death2Evil]

@zachRrosa: Is it not the answer (on behalf of the pigs) in waking up people? Is it not the answer of oppressed people the world over? Is it not the answer in self defense? A court of law recently ruled that one may not be held accountable for a pig's death if brought about in efforts to resist unlawful arrest.

They brutalize. We berate and shame, and rightly so. I do not fetishize so-called "authority."

[zachRrosa]

@Death2Evil First of all, you said "violence is the answer" and that is clearly not true. And I didn't say that berating cops was violent, but it is disrespectful and only hurts the public image of us. A successful protest needs to make it clear to the cops that we are not the enemy without yelling at them. yelling at the cops only gives the ability of the cops and the public to dehumanize the protests as evil.

[Death2Evil]

@zachRrosa: No, hon, YOU wake up. Berating and shaming the pigs is not violence. ^^