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Blood on Wall Street: Violent OWS arrests (GRAPHIC PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Published: 18 November, 2011, 01:21
Edited: 18 November, 2011, 14:07
A man who identifed himself as Brendan Watts is seen with blood on his face while surrounded by three police officers in Zuccotti Park on November 17, 2011 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
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Hundreds of people have been arrested during clashes between police and Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in New York. Some protesters were bloodied during arrests.
This man who identified himself as Brendan Watts was beaten to the ground by police officers in Zuccotti Park. According to reports he was injured and suffered a fractured skull after being hit with a baton to the head as police clashed with protesters.
Brandon Watts lies injured on the ground (Allison Joyce/Getty Images/AFP)
(Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
And it was not the only case of violence during 'Day of Action' protests in New York. Police were seen roughly dragging people from crowd, forcibly bringing them to the ground and handcuffing them.
There were reports of journalists also being on the receiving end. RT's Lucy Kafanov was hit by NYPD officer on the arm with a baton. She witnessed a photographer being roughly shoved.
At first, OWS protesters were chanting "Put away the riot gear. I don't see no riot here" and '"This is a nonviolent protest". But when police went on with tough arrests – it was "Shame" and "This is what a police state looks like" chants all the way.
(Allison Joyce/Getty Images/AFP)
A protester affiliated with Occupy Wall Street link is arrested a few blocks away from the New York Stock Exchange on November 17, 2011 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)
A protester affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement is arrested by police officers at the intersection of Exchange Place and Beaver Street in the Financial District on November 17, 2011 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
Police officers fall while attempting to arrest protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street Movement at the intersection of Exchange Place and Beaver Street in the Financial District on November 17, 2011 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
A protester affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement is arrested by police officers on Beaver Street in New York City.(Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
A protester affiliated with Occupy Wall Street is arrested by police a few blocks away from the New York Stock Exchange on November 17, 2011 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)
A police officer gets back up after falling while attempting to arrest protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement at the intersection of Exchange Place and Beaver Street in the Financial District on November 17, 2011 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)
An Occupy Wall Street protester is arrested by Zuccotti Park on November 17, 2011 in New York City. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images/AFP)
17.11.2011, 22:32
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18.11.2011, 05:32
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‘Civil disobedience is the only way to go’Violent arrests have taken place in New York during a huge anti-Wall Street rally. RT correspondents as well as independent commentators bring the latest from the scene. Occupy Wall Street |
Due to the oligarchs’ rapacious looting and their purchase of a politically protected luxurious lifestyle, the people of the US are on the road to permanent serfdom under a police state. Tens of millions in the US live desperate slave like existences and they hold little hope for a better life. The democracy was not given to the people of the US on a platter. It is not theirs for all time, irrespective of their efforts. Either people of the US organize and they find political leadership to take this on or they are going to be in deep trouble. The failure of governance to address the current critical issues have already produced catastrophic consequences. Now we are experiencing a major global paradigm shift and it is still unfolding. Thirty-two US states including California, Illinois, Nevada, Arizona, Florida, New Jersey and Michigan are on the brink of insolvency as their tattered and fading economy is now more dire than ever. Inevitably in very near future the US government will order police or military to martial law which may lead to a second American revolution.
This guy was most likely frustrated by the massive force that's been pressing
against a mostly peaceful movement, where many of it's members are being
hurt & threatened. He acted out on his frustration in a childish way. If he'd been serious, he could've done far more damage. But the key issue here is the over reaction of the police to something non-life threatening, non-deadly and taking this kind of multiple violent actions against one person.
This only showcases how dangerous this has gotten.
It shows that those that seek to speak, to have a voice and seek answers to the problems we are facing have no true rights or freedoms in this country any
more. That if citizens seek to voice their grievances with the government as is
their Constitutional Right - they will be threatened, ridiculed, bullied, attacked
with military grade weapons, assaulted by riot police, despite there being no
riot in progress, they will be arrested, bloodied, bruised, detained without
charges or a lawyer and they will have their personal belongings confiscated
or destroyed.
This is the face of a police state. This is the face of the few imposing their will
on the many & forcing their will on those that protest. We've lost much of our
democratic republic status, in the last 2 months it has become clear that we've
been changed into a different country from the one we grew up in.
Personally I find myself kliing both OWS and Ron Paul. I think OWS has it right, that bankers have ruined the world as we know it. I think Paul however has it even more right, that it has been corrupt politicians and the FED that has enabled the bankers to do all this. I think OWS views the system more as if THEY got a bail out then WE want a bail out. Whereas Paul is more along the lines of F8ck that, no one should be getting bail outs, not the corporations, not the politicians, not groups of people who become special interests', etc. OWS I think doesn't connect with Paul because they don't understand that thinking.. they don't want to end bail outs, they just want to switch who is getting the bail out. ANyway, this is what you get when an empire is coming to an end. You get infighting over resources that grow more scarce every day. In time however, people ultimately come to realize that the problem is society's morality. That when you vote for corrupt politicians (like Bush and Obama) you get SOLD OUT. That's the OWS slogan right? "They got bailed out, we got sold out." Think about that for a second. Deep down the only one's that could sell them out' are their own politicians (that is after who gave the banks the bail out). If OWS stops to really think about what they are saying, they will realize that Paul is saying the same thing.