Police beat students at Occupy Berkely
 

Students stay anyhow.



It takes a special kind of man to repeatedly jab a girl in the stomach with a baton. Great job, officers. :thumbsup

one good thing about ows is that the pigs have been showing their true colors.

only a matter of time now

to serve and protect....

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

They need better training & equipment so they can hit harder.

Fuck Pigs

these are students right? or what classifies someone as part of the occupy movement?

hmm, the shape of their helmets ... ehm ... oops!?
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and the color of their uniforms ... omfg - wow
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I have friends that are cops, who are great people, so I try to differentiate between people and their role. Being a cop can be a tough job, and I sure wouldn't want to do it (I doubt that I could hit non-violent protestors, especially when I support their cause). After all, we will still likely need police for some time even after the revolution.

Some of the most radical leftists I have met, I met while serving in the military, and likewise, some of the most passionate anti-war activists I've protested alongside, were veterans.

Hopefully calmer heads will prevail, and important dialogue and messages are not drowned out by sound bytes and video footage designed primarily to polarize people.

I can't help but believe that Abbie Hoffman is smiling somewhere:

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Love and Peace,

ADG

You've got it all wrong. Germany had economic problems and they blamed it on Jews. Then Hitler comes along and used the fact that Jews created all these problems to persecute them. There's a reason the Nazi party supports these protests.

Only in America do these protestors want to change everything without throwing the government out :1orglaugh

Yeap, pretty fucked up!

eh-eh, way before hitler was reichskanzler he wrote he wanted to extinct the jews ... it was his very own goal to kill 'em all

Huh? Reichskanzler was not a person. It's the title for the Third Reich Chancellor of which Hitler held title to.

Sad, but hope this doesnt detour their efforts

Within a month, we'll get our first police killing of a protester. It's only an inevitability.

everyone had the book, obviously no one read it

i love the police

I hate to be the one to point this out you but women get beat everyday, in fact in some countries they cut womens clits off and make 'em where a grabage bag. that doesn't seem to bother you too much :2 cents:

What's really comical here is the protesters are squaring off against the police, and lumping them in with "the government". However, the truth is... Police officers are in fact part of the 99%. They are grossly underpaid.

In my hometown, we just let get go of ten percent of our police force. They are hurting right along with the rest of us.

lets all get a real life people

if you can't see the connection between the police and the state ... well there is not much one can do to help you ...

Who do you expect the protestors to square off against when it's the police whom are put in front of them. Do our political leaders go beat the shit out of each other when two countries wanna fight? Na they let the army do that.

Domestically it's the Police that do the biding for the powers that be and they are stuck right in the middle because the powers that be aren't gonna go down there and talk to the protestors. Meanwhile the Police are supposed to protect and serve the people. Yet who writes their pay checks?

Regardless the cops are in a tough situation but there is no call for actions like that. TBH I wish that crowd would have beat the shit out of those cops over that because no one has accept being beaten by a cop or anyone else like that.

Maintaining public order is one of the few legitimate functions of government. They should have dispersed these crowds using all necessary force a long time ago.

Fuck all police. 100% of police are pieces of shit. The cops are the biggest gang in every city.

fuck them all. true pieces of shit.

damn, that shit hurts..

people have the right to protest, unless they use violence themselves. in that case i dont have any sympathies. but peaceful protest? i am all for it

they alrdy bashed a few heads in.

Put a veteran in hospital with broken skull.

I was a reserve deputy sheriff for a year and a half, and that perspective gives me a certain sympathy for what cops go through and deal with everyday. However, in this case it looked to me that they said something to the cop that really pissed him off, maybe about his mother or something, who knows. He clearly then looked around, to see if there was a supervisor nearby, and when he didn't see one, he starts in on them with his baton. He was counting on the fact that cops are trained to back each other up when the shit starts, and then when things are under control, to THEN figure out what exactly happened. This is because in crisis situations, there isn't time to stand around and find out what is what. You may have only a second to react, get things resolved and back under control, and THEN find out what exactly happened. This cop knew all this, and knew that once it started, the other cops would initially back him up. It looks like he stopped only when a supervisor appears at the end. In short, this cop was a total asshat and should never have been provoked to use violence, no matter what was said to him. In fact, I'm sure that in the morning briefing, they were specifically warned that people would try to provoke this reaction in order to make the cops look bad, so there is no excuse for the cops behavior. This idiot is just not professional enough to be a cop. He needs to be disciplined, fined, retrained, or fired IMHO.



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Then they need to stop being tools for the 1%.

If a cop starts to beat people over "words" then he is very poorly trained and shouldent even be put infront of protesters, infact he shouldent even be a cop. This kind of thing gives the cops a real bad name. The encounters I have had with police over my years only one of them I had respect for because he talked and treated me like a person. The others were complete arseholes and rude. These were all traffic related and i have no criminal record but most of them treat you like scum even over here in the UK.

Totally. I'm sure that each and every police officer, when they strapped on their boots that morning, said to themselves "I can't wait to oppress the citizens and support the banking industry". Because, you know, they are making millions with the banking industry.

that really has nothing to do with it. Are you saying you see no connection between police and state ?:upsidedow

Yeah clearly these protestors are out of control and a danger to the safety of the larger public.... heh.

These police need to find something better to do and actually earn their money. Rather than standing around jabbing people who are clearly not a threat to my safety or anyone's safety around that vicinity.

When I see things like this I think of what is/was going on elsewhere in the world.

When it came to Egypt it was more peaceful because the military felt more aligned with the citizens than the government.

It is no secret that many in the US military think what they've had to do in the last decade wasnt for the people but rather special interests.

If this keeps growing I can't help but to wonder which side our military chooses. It could very well the deciding factor on who wins.

In what universe were you when that happend?

We are the 100%.

Power to the people, right on!

Funny, they plan to have a class sit out Tuesday. Guess they want to keep everyone at 1%.