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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts) Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:12 PM Mar 2012

Pic from OWS today. This is a cop???

Anthony De Rosa (@AntDeRosa)
3/17/12 4:54 PM
RT @AdrianChen: Hipster Cop at #ows looking like he stepped out of a menswear blog. Nice shoes.

This is the equivalent of a fashion stun grenade. It left me speechless.

The Fashion Police need to take him down NOW and put him back in the basement from whence he escaped!

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Pic from OWS today. This is a cop??? (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 OP

Hey you can't please everyone. I dig the shoes. Brings me back to my elementary southernyankeebelle Mar 2012 #1

YEP. LOL... remind me of my old saddle shoes! blaze Mar 2012 #9

I tell you they sure do last a long time. southernyankeebelle Mar 2012 #12

Maybe it is an unemployed guy and this is the best he could do n/t Gore1FL Mar 2012 #2

I wouln't have posted it Are_grits_groceries Mar 2012 #3

Who knew? Cops wear PIG skin suede. notadmblnd Mar 2012 #4

Maybe that's what the OTHER cop is texting about? n/t Ian David Mar 2012 #5

So. They are now allowing cops to wear jerseys their Meemah made? alphafemale Mar 2012 #6

Hipster cop has been around for a while graywarrior Mar 2012 #7

Hipster cop has been a well-known fixture at OWS since at least October pinboy3niner Mar 2012 #8

He sort of reminds me of Bill Gates at first look, and I love his shoes..LOL..n/t monmouth Mar 2012 #10

HEY! I have two pairs of saddle shoes like that... TreasonousBastard Mar 2012 #11

Quilted anorak - really bad fashion choice. GoneOffShore Mar 2012 #13

Well, it's sure as hell better than this: woo me with science Mar 2012 #14

It's refreshing to see a man in something other than jeans and tennis shoes. WorseBeforeBetter Mar 2012 #15

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)

1. Hey you can't please everyone. I dig the shoes. Brings me back to my elementary

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:17 PM

Mar 2012

catholic school education, LOL. Of course we wore black and white shoes

blaze

(6,362 posts)

9. YEP. LOL... remind me of my old saddle shoes!

Reply to southernyankeebelle (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:45 PM

Mar 2012

I kinda like 'em too.

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)

12. I tell you they sure do last a long time.

Reply to blaze (Reply #9)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:03 PM

Mar 2012

Gore1FL

(21,132 posts)

2. Maybe it is an unemployed guy and this is the best he could do n/t

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:20 PM

Mar 2012

Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)

3. I wouln't have posted it

Reply to Gore1FL (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:22 PM

Mar 2012

if the tweet had not pointed out he was a cop.
I may be mean, but I'm not going to make fun of the homeless or unemployed.

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)

4. Who knew? Cops wear PIG skin suede.

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:26 PM

Mar 2012

Somehow seems appropriate.

Ian David

(69,059 posts)

5. Maybe that's what the OTHER cop is texting about? n/t

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:31 PM

Mar 2012

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)

6. So. They are now allowing cops to wear jerseys their Meemah made?

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:31 PM

Mar 2012

graywarrior

(59,440 posts)

7. Hipster cop has been around for a while

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:35 PM

Mar 2012

He's looked better.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

8. Hipster cop has been a well-known fixture at OWS since at least October

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 05:36 PM

Mar 2012

Posted at 04:13 PM ET, 10/14/2011

Meet Rick, the Occupy Wall Street ‘hipster cop’

By Elizabeth Flock

He wears a Mister Rogers cardigan, clipped ties and a smirk. He makes snarky jokes about Radiohead. He chats with Tom Morello, casually, just because he can. And he’s become such a fixture at the Occupy Wall Street protests that journalists now dub him “infamous.”

Meet Rick, the NYPD hipster cop.

First reported on the blog “The World of Today,” by Adrien Chen of Gawker, Rick is becoming something of a legend around Zuccotti Park, where protesters have been camping out for the past several weeks.

...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/ows-protesters-protected-by-rick-the-nyc-hipster-cop/2011/10/14/gIQAljNVkL_blog.html

monmouth

(21,078 posts)

10. He sort of reminds me of Bill Gates at first look, and I love his shoes..LOL..n/t

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 06:04 PM

Mar 2012

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

11. HEY! I have two pairs of saddle shoes like that...

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 07:44 PM

Mar 2012

and might just get a third. Around 30 bucks at the Bass outlet store.

Let's see a picture of YOU and your fashion sense.

(Don't much like the quilted jacket, though.)