Occupy Wall Street - Police Officer parks his motorbike on the leg of a protester (Breaking his leg)

[Saviordd1]

Good. Maybe we can get these god damned people back to work where they should be. I'm sick of all the protestors, the riots, the EVERYTHING.

People. Please. For god's sake. Shut up and go back to your work. Your lives. Your families. Quit complaining and do your job.

It's too bad that it's illegal to hire strikebreakers anymore. Maybe the people who want to work could, then.

Yeah what a shame we can't hire brutes who follow the higher up commands through violence and brute force when people are trying to make a point, I miss that almost as much as I miss women being practically second class and child labor
(I am, obviously, being sarcastic for those of you who would jump down my throat otherwise)

Don't forget to throw black slavery in there too! Lets bring back all the old favourites.

Oh of course how could I forget the best old stuff

 

[No_Remainders]

And really officer? Really? Running over a dude? and in front of cameras too?

To be fair, it's been said multiple times that it was faked, and I'd believe that sooner than I'd believe a police officer drove over some idiot's leg while said idiot lied in the middle of the street.

Seriously, if you're lying in the middle of the street, fuck you, I hope someone runs over your leg.

The punishment for the dude faking it should be that he has to lie down in front of a motorbike and have it drive over his leg, just to show him how painful it really would have been.

Honestly, this bullshit has gone on long enough. The "Occupy Street" has gone on long enough. I really wish people would just shut the fuck up and go back to their jobs. Perhaps they don't realise that going and protesting like fucking morons is actually worse for the economy of their countries than working is...

They deserve to lose their jobs so people who would actually appreciate the work could have them instead.

 

[Sandernista]

Good. Maybe we can get these god damned people back to work where they should be. I'm sick of all the protestors, the riots, the EVERYTHING.

People. Please. For god's sake. Shut up and go back to your work. Your lives. Your families. Quit complaining and do your job.

Nice empathy.

People like you make me sick.

Let me guess, you grew up with a moderately wealthy family and haven't had to struggle for anything in your life, m'right?

Do you have superpowers? You read a comment and then suddenly know everything about them? That's pretty cool, man...

In all seriousness, don't assume you know him because of what he just said. I have the same opinion, care to take a swing at my background? Think that I grew up in a wealthy family? That I make you sick? I reckon if you would be wrong if you tried to figure out where I grew up from this.

I dislike striking, most of the time. It does nothing but harm most of the time. Protesting is all well and good, but it does nothing, and as Pandaman says, they should go back to their jobs. Or something productive if they don't have one, like looking for one.

Just because he disagrees with protests and riots he should get cancer? Do you know people who have suffered with cancer? If you do, your heartless as well as a general douche. If not, then get some perspective. Seriously, it's an opinion, it's not like he was saying the holocaust was awesome.

Wait. What?

Protesting and striking doesn't do anything good?

Why do you think women can vote, that there is minimum wage, a 5 day work week?

Seriously?

 

[ninetails593]

... Well that's what they fucking get for crowding around a MOTORCYCLE. What a drama queen. I think the cop's the victim here, imagine if you had paparazzi swarming your vehicle and all of a sudden they complain for getting hurt. If you don't want to get run over, get out of the way of a motorcycle coming down the street! And don't say the guy didn't notice him, it was a police motorcycle getting swarmed by shouting cameramen! You'd have to be blind and deaf to miss that!

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Honestly, this bullshit has gone on long enough. The "Occupy Street" has gone on long enough. I really wish people would just shut the fuck up and go back to their jobs. Perhaps they don't realise that going and protesting like fucking morons is actually worse for the economy of their countries than working is...

They deserve to lose their jobs so people who would actually appreciate the work could have them instead.

I'm afraid that only applies to the people who still have jobs. What are those who were part of the massive layoffs supposed to do, sit quietly in their homes (assuming they still have homes) and accept what happened?

 

[Smagmuck_]

This is about as fake as Kim Kardashian's ass.

The sooner the NYPD start tossing tear gas into the groups, the sooner this will be over.
Get back to fucking work you "99%".

 

[No_Remainders]

Honestly, this bullshit has gone on long enough. The "Occupy Street" has gone on long enough. I really wish people would just shut the fuck up and go back to their jobs. Perhaps they don't realise that going and protesting like fucking morons is actually worse for the economy of their countries than working is...

They deserve to lose their jobs so people who would actually appreciate the work could have them instead.

I'm afraid that only applies to the people who still have jobs. What are those who were part of the massive layoffs supposed to do, sit quietly in their homes (assuming they still have homes) and accept what happened?

Yep. Totally out of the question that they'd try to get a different job. That's just absurd to the highest degree of ridiculousness, isn't it?

 

[TheCommie12]

Well, theres another bloody lawsuit for the police to handle.

Why are people still shocked at police being heavy handed at protests or disturbances, it happens all the time. I'm not saying it should happen, but the news always plays it up like every incident is the very first incident.

Plus, what on earth is he doing on the floor anyway?

from what I have been reading about is protest, the cops sound like they are breaching human rights conventions. and they will have a lot of lawsuits.

The sad thing is that the charges against the police will never get to court. The Police will cover their a**'s as much as possible

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

I love how people are trying to make this out as police brutality and not just some retard sleeping in the road no I take that back people with mental illnesses would have better sense to lie down in the road that combined with the fact people decided to crowed the guy on the bike when he was trying to get through (go on look at the video and how they close in) and I have no sympathy for these people

This.

Sweet Sweet Honesty...

Sir do you bake your own daily?

If you havent noticed these people fight the police everytime they can.... Trust me you may see it as "Those police are being mean its police brutality" nope in their minds its fighting the man without killing anyone... Resist arrest to the point where the mace comes out and suddenly its "POLICE BRUTALITY" "STOP HIM OMG" "YOU CANT DO THAT!" and then you edit your video to just the "HORRIBLE BEATING BY NYPD" and get the sympathy and empowering words you need to "fight the man,man"

 

[Safe in the Dark]

 

[Vivi22]

Good. Maybe we can get these god damned people back to work where they should be. I'm sick of all the protestors, the riots, the EVERYTHING.

People. Please. For god's sake. Shut up and go back to your work. Your lives. Your families. Quit complaining and do your job.

If these people had a job to do they probably wouldn't be there protesting the people who control most of the money destroying the economy.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Honestly, this bullshit has gone on long enough. The "Occupy Street" has gone on long enough. I really wish people would just shut the fuck up and go back to their jobs. Perhaps they don't realise that going and protesting like fucking morons is actually worse for the economy of their countries than working is...

They deserve to lose their jobs so people who would actually appreciate the work could have them instead.

I'm afraid that only applies to the people who still have jobs. What are those who were part of the massive layoffs supposed to do, sit quietly in their homes (assuming they still have homes) and accept what happened?

Yep. Totally out of the question that they'd try to get a different job. That's just absurd to the highest degree of ridiculousness, isn't it?

Of course, because finding a new job is just so easy. Even if you get evicted from your home by the banks these people are protesting.
Students who are under crushing amounts of debt from skyrocketing loans that they used to pay for tuition fees?...Oh just get a job you bunch of whining hippies, and one will do - go strip for cash or flip burgers.
Families who get kicked out of their homes because they couldnt afford the rising mortgage rates? Oh just get another job and accept it.
A man can't afford the huge medical bills to save his dying wife? Just get a 2nd or even 3rd job. Its just so easy !

I mean...It's not like they're actually protesting for something productive right? They probably don't even know what they're protesting about.

 

[Hammartroll]

Even if it wasn't TOTALLY OBVIOUSLY FAKED, I still hate how these type of protesters obviously provoke the police (the police that arn't shills at least) until they get punched in the face and then run to the nearest camera to complain about police brutality.

I remeber in the London riots a few years back there was a video of a guy with a bloody head who claimed he got hit over the head by a police club and then complained that he was 18 and that it was "child abuse". Look guy, your not a child, your a man-child that needs to grow up and stop being a tool.



Showing the police to be brutal isn't even the point of these protests.. it was my assumption these were about condemning criminals who caused the current economic crises (btw, not all people who work on Wall Street are criminals). All this hoopla is obviously just to cause trouble. Most of the people in these OWS things are idiots and tools.

 

[Daverson]

[snip]

Even if it was case B, its still no excuse. If a street is crowded and you cant see shit, and you are moving through it on a vehicle that weighs 3 times your weight, DONT FUCKING DRIVE. Its amazing. Granted, in this case you might actually have a small point, but its just amusing to see people defend police brutality no matter what.

Makes me want to become a cop and beat the shit out of you just to hear you say "Well, he did give me a fair warning" afterward.

How exactly is it police brutality, if a biker accidentally runs over someone's leg? Watch the video - the driver isn't zooming around crowds without a care in the world, there's an area in the street that's been cleared so emergency services can move vehicles around.

This turned up a few posts ago (props to Sober Thal!)

?Independent witnesses said he purposely put his legs under the scooter and then claimed falsely he was trapped,? Mr. Browne said.
...
Before the scooter incident, Mr. Browne said, Mr. Douglas had been warned repeatedly to ?stay on the sidewalk and not come into the street.?

So, yeah, not only was it case B, but he also wasn't actually hurt.

 

[Yearlongjester]

It's a bit of a shame, but I have a hard time sympathizing.

In addition to the fact that you don't give any side beyond the one you're obviously biased towards, they're part of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest. Which is officially the most retarded protest ever. Yes, the distribution of wealth is extremely messed up in the USA, and in fact in most countries. Now how the hell is sitting on your ass going "Waaaaaah!" going to fix a damn thing? It's not. It's a bunch of people whining about how unfair everything is like a bunch of two-year olds, thinking that if they cry hard enough mommy will come and make it better.

Yes, what I just said was mean. But I meant it, the protest will solve nothing. These protests have NEVER solved anything. This is pretty much the status quo, they aren't going to look down from their homes and go "Oh, christoph I think we should redistribute the wealth. I mean look, they're sitting outside. They got signs and everything!" That's not how it's going to work, the only thing that would potentially alter the financial infrastructure are either killing that 1%, which would be pretty frowned upon I think, or overthrowing the entire US government and setting everyone back to zero.

The protest is nice ideally, but that's all it is. Idealists going on about how the world should be, and I'm all for that. But they have to remember the only effect it'll really have is inciting the masses, which leads to counter-productive violence.

All in all, this is an act of force perpetrated by the law to try and enforce the order they've sworn to protect. 85% of the protests are college students and "Anarchists" who are simply protesting because they can. Neither side is right, so stop painting that black and white picture about this.

 

[Spydercake]

I am in support of occupying wallstreet, but its people like the idiot laying in the road that are preventing anything from being changed, just like the other video earlier this morning. The one where a woman was punched by an officer. Apparently its police brutality when an officer reacts to being punched as well.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Good. Maybe we can get these god damned people back to work where they should be. I'm sick of all the protestors, the riots, the EVERYTHING.

People. Please. For god's sake. Shut up and go back to your work. Your lives. Your families. Quit complaining and do your job.

It's too bad that it's illegal to hire strikebreakers anymore. Maybe the people who want to work could, then.

Yeah what a shame we can't hire brutes who follow the higher up commands through violence and brute force when people are trying to make a point, I miss that almost as much as I miss women being practically second class and child labor
(I am, obviously, being sarcastic for those of you who would jump down my throat otherwise)

I don't think you know what a strikebreaker is.

A strikebreaker is someone that a company will hire to replace people who don't want to work, basically. Generally when the people are 'on strike' (Hence the name 'strikebreakers'), but it's pretty much applicable whenever people aren't working/being unproductive.

 

[davisjones1287]

Yearlongjester and Hammartroll have this completely correct.
This was faked. The police aren't engaging in some massive infringement of human rights (that I've seen, at least. Commie91, if you want to show me some, PM me.)

I agree with these protests in principal, but not the protesters; I generally disagree with intention skewing of statistics ('Oh, 99% is just a symbol, man!') and I definitely disagree with outright lying and staging of scenarios such as these.

 

[davisjones1287]

I am in support of occupying wallstreet, but its people like the idiot laying in the road that are preventing anything from being changed, just like the other video earlier this morning. The one where a woman was punched by an officer. Apparently its police brutality when an officer reacts to being punched as well.

Didn't you know, Spyder? Cops aren't supposed to meet force with equal force. I mean, it's my right as a college student to physically abuse a police officer; if he hits me back, it's police brutality after all.

Don't slip on that sarcasm.

 

[darthmocha]

Lets clear this gossip up. First, the guy run over was not a protester, but a legal observer named Eric Douglas. Only one source is claiming it was staged and that source is not all that reputable.

Here is a news clip of the man's attorney, Yetta Kurland, discussing what happened with Keith Olbermann. She and Olbermann explain what happened pretty well and show the video of what happened in full length. Its the only clip that has his attorney present and shows the video in a clear analysis without much speculation like some news sources out there.

http://current.com/shows/countdown/videos/keith-attorney-yetta-kurland-react-to-nypds-defense-after-injuring-man-at-occupy


Here is a longer video showing the cop clearly running him over as the cop drives right into a crowd of reporters, not protesters. It also has some clear audio showing people yelling at the police to help him, which they promptly ignored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyDjHy4S7Y&feature=player_detailpage