Police mace the hell out of peaceful OWS protesters

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janas19

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That's a f***Ing crime, as far as I'm concerned. Those police officers need to be prosecuted.
 
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Slick5150

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Lifted said:
Annoying kids deserved it. Stop being annoying.
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Go live in Saudi Arabia where they don't tolerate such things then. In America, this thing called the Constitution gives them the right to peacefully assemble.
 
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HeXen

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janas19 said:
That's a f***Ing crime, as far as I'm concerned. Those police officers need to be prosecuted.
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so do some of the protesters. their committing crimes daily. not all but some.
But don't let the media paint one side of the coin gold. tolerance has its limits and theres always 2 sides to every story.
who knows, if you were a cop there you may have resorted to the same thing. everyones different but no one...no one is a saint in every circumstance.
 
twinrider1

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You are trespassing. Move. If they don't comply with a lawful request, what should the officers do? Each department has a policy on their continuum of force. I'll venture the mace was not the first step they took to move the protesters. Uncomfortable? I'm sure it was. A great injustice? I don't think it qualifies.
 
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Vic Vega

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Slick5150 said:
Go live in Saudi Arabia where they don't tolerate such things then. In America, this thing called the Constitution gives them the right to peacefully assemble.
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It does not give them a right to disrupt services, destruct public or private property or squat indefinitely. Since OWS is doing all these things, cities and towns are lawfully removing them - if they refuse to leave then they must be removed. Good riddens. Do you have any idea what these idiots are COSTING the municipalities? Of course not. You idiots can't count.
 
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Rage187

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I just don't get why college kids are doing this. You only get one diversion before things like this end up on your record. One day they are going want to work in the corporate world and something stupid like this will cost them their future.
 
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What do you suggest they should do? They were told hours before hand that they couldn't camp on the school's quad. Just because people have the right to protest doesn't mean that they have the right to use some other group, company, or organization's property however they want.

The police weren't holding them down and spraying them, the protesters were fully aware of what the police were about to do and had the opportunity to leave. They chose to sit down and refused to leave the area where they were told they couldn't camp. Would you have been happier if the police held down, cuffed, and dragged them off by physical force?

Just because they have the right to protest doesn't mean they have the right to take over other people's, groups', or organizations' property to do so. Their right to protest isn't any more important than other people's rights to reasonably use the property.
 
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Lifted

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Slick5150 said:
Go live in Saudi Arabia where they don't tolerate such things then. In America, this thing called the Constitution gives them the right to peacefully assemble.
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Which part of the Constitution permits blocking traffic on private property?

I'm waiting.
 
sandorski

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There was no need for the Pepper Spray. They were sitting there, easily situated for simply dragging away. Cops have become increasingly Lazy and increasingly Brutal at the same time with these "Non-Lethal" tools.
 
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Slick5150

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It isn't that hard for police to come and pick people up one at a time and take them away if need be. If someone resists, which these people weren't doing, then additional steps can be taken. This was obvious police abuse, and anyone who doesn't think so needs to actually learn about the laws of this nation. It's sad.

I couldn't care less about the OWS protests themselves, but none of what they were doing gives the police the right to assault them. Remove them, yes. Assault, no.
 
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Slick5150 said:
Go live in Saudi Arabia where they don't tolerate such things then. In America, this thing called the Constitution gives them the right to peacefully assemble.
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There was initially "a pushing and shoving match" near SW 5th Avenue and Alder Street, King said in an interview, and again a "pretty intense confrontation" at SW 4th Avenue and Morrison Street.

The most raucous confrontation occurred near Chase Bank shortly after 4 p.m. as officers were trying to remove protesters who had entered the bank vestibule. But police were blocked by hundreds of demonstrators outside. Meanwhile, a core of protesters couldn't be cleared from the street, which is a path for one of the city's major downtown light-rail systems.

"Two of the protesters engaged in some kind of a struggle, a pushing match, with one of the officers, and in the course of that, tensions escalated and ultimately pepper spray was deployed, and that by and large resolved the disturbance at that location," King said.
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pushing cops is super peaceful, amirite.
 
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Bryf50

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Lets break this down logically. From what I understand:
1. Protesting on Campus which doesn't allow it and are asked to leave
2. They don't ( at this point they're trespassing)
3. Cops get called in and ask them to leave
4. They don't

At this point what else are the cops supposed to do. Should the cops just say "Oh Well I guess there's nothing we can do" and leave.
 
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