Over 1000 Arrested Yesterday

The courts asked them to stop at 700.

Here come the lawsuits.

10/2/2011 10:01:18 AM

I'm pretty impressed if they actually arrested 1000 people in one sitting. Just on a logistical level.

Morally, it stinks.

Link?

10/2/2011 10:14:29 AM

Can you stop making these shitty threads? I assume you're talking about the wall street protesters, but for fucks sake you dick, post a god damn link.

Better yet

Just make one thread

smc's thread for rants against the oppressive government

This shitty tripe is getting a little out of hand

10/2/2011 10:14:47 AM

A friend of mine was arrested. Not sure what her situation is today.

10/2/2011 10:40:07 AM

hippies got arrested. What did they think was going to happen?

10/2/2011 10:46:27 AM

Technically, any individuals past the 700 mark were "detained"...

Looks like it doesn't take much to overwhelm the biggest police department in the world. I'll bet we could cripple raleigh with a mere 300 arrests.

10/2/2011 11:08:57 AM

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 11:10 AM. Reason : ...]

10/2/2011 11:10:10 AM

apparently the cops directed people to the brooklyn bridge and then arrested them for being on the bridge.

10/2/2011 12:11:35 PM

would it kill someone to post a motherfucking link

10/2/2011 12:13:52 PM

The Revolution Will Not Be Hyperlinked

[Edited on October 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM. Reason : .]

10/2/2011 12:17:03 PM

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/

10/2/2011 12:31:02 PM

The New York Times isn't a reliable news source. Editors are cleansing any reports of police misconduct.

10/2/2011 12:51:56 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/27/nyregion/rally-puts-police-under-new-scrutiny.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

10/2/2011 2:01:22 PM

^ per the previous post, i cannot trust the contents of that article

10/2/2011 3:16:44 PM

Someone needs to tell these hippies to stop annoying the people trying to make their living.

10/2/2011 3:38:35 PM

^Watch the interviews. A good number of them are young college grads who cant find good jobs. They claim to be the "over-educated and under-employed". Sure, there a plenty of stinkin' hippies too, but the protestors do make a good point.

10/2/2011 8:15:53 PM

Obviously this source is ~, but has some good points

http://www.infowars.com/occupy-wall-street-protesters-call-totalitarian-government-re-election-of-obama/

Fucking hippies

10/2/2011 8:23:28 PM

^ I think that paints the wrong picture of this movement. Its not a partisan movement. These protesters are intellectual and aware of government corruption on both sides. They know the government, corporations, and police cannot be trusted. They know of the Fed's role in this mess and they know that Obama surrounds himself with corporate interests. This isn't a tea party rally.

10/2/2011 8:36:21 PM

Quote :

"Obama surrounds himself with corporate interests"

more like corporate interests surround Obama and every other politician. corporate interests are the cancer that's eating the government.

10/3/2011 3:26:55 AM

Quote :

"corporate interests are the cancer that's eating the government."

For something to be eaten, doesn't it need to get smaller? More likely, society is being eaten by the cancer that is government attempting to feed both itself and its corporate interests.

10/3/2011 12:01:20 PM

The person who changed the NYT article was is also the NYT Police Bureau Chief.

10/4/2011 9:24:47 AM

Quote :

""over-educated and under-employed""

Stop going to school for Art History and Philosophy degrees.

10/4/2011 7:41:46 PM

the problem with an overly large government is that the larger it gets the more corruption, the more special interest the more say, the more the corporations end up writing the laws that run your lives.

10/4/2011 9:37:58 PM

Democracy has had a good run. I'm ready to try totalitarianism.

10/5/2011 2:27:51 AM

I wonder, if the cops tell me they are going to arrest me for doing X, and I then do X, are the cops wrong for arresting me?

10/5/2011 8:19:45 AM