Hundreds Arrested in 'Occupy' Protests (Violent Arrests at Occupy SF Apparently Occurring Now)

Source: Los Angeles Times

Hundreds arrested in 'Occupy' protests

Weekend demonstrations in support of the Occupy Wall Street effort led to several hundred arrests, with 70 held in New York and 175 in Chicago.

Associated Press
October 16, 2011, 11:02 p.m.

Several hundred protesters in at least seven U.S. cities supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement were arrested over the weekend after refusing to obey police orders to leave public areas, including 175 in Chicago.

The arrests were mostly peaceful and came as somewhat of a contrast to earlier demonstrations, where protesters took care to follow laws in order to continue criticizing Wall Street's role in the financial crisis and other economic injustices.

The arrests came after a day of protests in cities around the world, where tens of thousands gathered to rally against what they see as corporate greed.

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U.S. cities large and small were "occupied" over the weekend: Washington, D.C.; Fairbanks, Alaska; Burlington, Vt.; Rapid City, S.D.; and Cheyenne, Wyo., were just a few. In Cincinnati, protesters moved their demonstration out of a park after hearing that a couple were getting their wedding photos taken there — but the bride and groom sought them out for pictures.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-occupy-wall-street-20111017,0,7374570.story

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@JeffSharlet It's no mystery why police bust up occupations at midnight, as they're about to at @occupySF. But it's not the sign of a confident gov't.

RT @CalFireNews #OWS Notes Folks Yelling for 911 for injured unresponsive protester Livestream died, went to get battery

Why?

This is just the beginning.

When the rabble riot, there is one thing you can count on, is hiring the other half to keep them in line. (or something of the sort. Cops are pretty much just poor folks dressed up in riot gear.

Must be a better answer to all of this -- and good to see that the groups continue

to try to find a way to show the police just that -- they're working for the very

people who'd just as quickly put them on food stamps and cancel their health care!

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with the 'Occupy' movement. The MSM is lumping the Rome violence in with 'Occupy' to give 'Occupy' a bad name.

... I thought something in this picture seemed familiar:<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/08/1024352/-Conservative-Magazine-Brags-of-its-Agent-Provacateurs-Role-in-Provoking-Police-Action-in-DC-?via=siderec>

What is with all the black shirts and black shoes these AGENT PROVOCATEURS are wearing.

if not stopped the arrests all together. Remember that next time she 'praises' the protesters. The truth is that the she doesn't give a rat's ass about Occupy Movement.

the 1%ers' lackies and lickspittles.

by 'officially' supporting it and yet allowing the police state to crush it in reality.

He is the consummate front guy for the top 1%. :grr:

from the mayor on down to the Chief of Police.

get the money out of politics.

it should be nothing to make a career out of, simply a civil service that needs to be done.

it is looking as if the plan is to fall back on the old slash and burn method of the pre-civilization humans. the destruction of property is especially disturbing to me. they destroy the property of those who will have no easy way to replace it. bastards. bastards!

early in the morning? we already know the MSM will ignore it either way unless they can make the OWS protesters look like some hoodlums or something.

Standard operating procedure, unfortunately--people are at their weakest/least able to defend themselves (least awake and dressed) between 3 and 5 a.m.

The cops got mean and ugly but the protesters didn't get violent. I am very proud of them. True American patriots all.

has been down there and has been working with them on logistics. Guess who I am considering for Mayor. Fuck Ed Lee.

then they are creating a situation which will see other, less peaceful forms of protest inevitably arise. They will have no one to blame but themselves.

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They're wasting their frikkin' time. The People won't give up.

They've been building mass detention facilities for years now, preparing for just such an occasion.

You can't jail an idea.

isn't set up for hundreds of thousands of protesters

thats why when a GOVERNMENT lets things get this bad

the people have no choice

no charges necessary, nor due process, if the government wants to 'detain' you for any reason they see fit.

This was, of course, why I was, and remain, opposed to that piece of rubbish.

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Feeling at all like the chill of 1939 in Nazi Germany?

expecting this for a long time. Why do you think they spent so many BILLIONS on the Fatherland Security Department?

We must resist non-violently or we play into their hands. It will not be easy, but it has to be done.

Peace and solidarity



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it's the way they're going to fully realize the Neo-Feudal Era, and something they've been working towards since the end of WW II, in my opinion.

I want to know more, the livestream isn't helping much...

but I am still sending my intentions to the people...in solidarity, man... :hug:

sfgate.com has the story

I just created my account here to try and get my message out. I don't know what I am doing so please bear with me.

I wrote a sort of open letter to America, created a simple website to post it on and then registerd a twitter account under the same name I just registered here to try and get it seen. I sent the link to about 6 people or so before Twitter suspended my account.

Here is the website http://www.obaf.org/

I am 100% honest in my motives, and I am working for or with no one at this time.

have not moved their money out of big banks to credit unions and local banks to do so.

Defund the big banks. Meet the brutality of police crackdowns with a non-confrontational reply (moving your money).

I have.

Second only to New York City as a banking center so it should be no surprise that they would have one of the harshest crack downs. It is just another nail in the coffin on why public financing of elections is so critical to cleaning up our current mess.

Mayor Ed Lee
(415) 554-6141
Fax: (415) 554-6160
Email: mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org

Chief Gascon
415-553-1551

Their treatment of the protestors is unacceptable. :mad:

In fact, the guy at the mayor's office suggested that I also e-mail which I did!

I spoke with Sergeant Yamaguchi, Star# 1976. He said they are working with the OccupySF people and that the SF police have cooperated with their requests including setting up porta-potties and hand washing stations, etc.

He said the violence and zero-tolerance attitude by the police was started after a possible "black-bloc" group managed to infiltrate the movement and occupy with them. He said the OccupySF people are not sure who they are or what their agenda is.

He said this group has been antagonistic, has thrown liquids at the police and has thrown a couple of punches at police. He made it sound like these isolated incidents should somehow justify the riot gear and brutal crackdown on the whole OccupySF movement that SFPD has used.

This is what I was just told by a police representative who said he was acting as spokesman for the PD right now.

Just a few on them, at the main occupy site. They annoy the fuck out of me -- they show up at EVERY protest and make it about themselves. :eyes: Real twerps whose sole purpose is to fuck with the cops -- could care less about the issue at hand.

The anti-war demonstrations were used to undo the Democratic Party's
chances of ending the war, in effect. Nixon won with LIES instead,
and warfare was put into high gear for four more years.

Beyond a doubt, an as has been unequivocally proven already,
the Occupy movement is infiltrated and spied upon.
Vigilance for agent provocateurs seems sensible.

and don't forget that Nixon was making back channel deals to try

to keep the Vietnam Peace talks from going forward --

LBJ had stopped the bombing to give the peace talks a chance and

to help Humphrey.

That may have been the first "October Surprise" ---


but also, the electronic voting computers also began to come in during

the late 1960's and were immediately reporting odd and unverifiable

results. I've always questioned whether there actually was a "Southern

Strategy" or whether it was simply computer voting.



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surround them and non-violently take away their power.

It will not go well for them if they start hurting innocent folks when they are encircled by 50,000 people.

We can block traffic everywhere, and halt commerce. We can pull off a major boycott of everything except bare essentials, pull our money out of the banks, and crash the stock market.

They either accede to our demands, or we continue to bankrupt them until they do.

Through solidarity, persistence, determination, focus, and wise action, we can end any and all power that wealthy private interests have over our world forever.

getting enough people throwing their weight behind the Occupy Movement so that it becomes ubiquitous and undeniable.

Let's show them the power of the people to peacefully protest a grossly unjust system.

than their counterparts in more right wing locales?

maybe it's just misperception on my part, but there seems to be a trend.