harlighquinn: Inside the NYPD’s Lost and Found
This is how Mayor Bloomberg “safely stores” personal effects of the Occupiers.
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When the NYPD performed a militarized raid of Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011, they threw the 5,554 books in the People’s Library (and the tent, donated by author Patti Smith) into a trash compactor. In response to the outrage over the destruction of books, Bloomberg’s office tweeted a disingenuous picture of the books and laptops being “safely stored” at the Department of Sanitation. However, when #OWS librarians arrived with an inventory of the books, they confirmed that most of the books were missing or damaged or soiled beyond use because of the trash compactor.
This is what a police state looks like.
(Source: thebeardisthething)
More details on the image of the officer casually spraying student protestors at UC Davis from earlier. The full story is even worse.
Police used batons to try to push the students apart. Those they could separate, they arrested, kneeling on their bodies and pushing their heads into the ground. Those they could not separate, they pepper-sprayed directly in the face, holding these students as they did so. When students covered their eyes with their clothing, police forced open their mouths and pepper-sprayed down their throats. Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood. [emphasis added]
And this letter from UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi trying to explain away the violence certainly doesn’t make it any better.
negacrow:stfuconservatives:whatiremembered:
This is important. Pepper spray should only ever be used to pacify a dangerous suspect. In this case it is being administered as a punishment, in clear violation of the 8th amendment and Article Five of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Activist were peacefully protesting on their campus at University of California, Davis Quad.
Friday afternoon police showed up in riot gear to disperse the protesters by using pepper spray at point-blank range.
The officer who pepper-sprayed UC Davis students is Lt. John Pike. Give his PD a call. 530-752-1727
What really makes me sick about all of this is that this behavior is nothing new. They’ve been getting away with this kind of abuse for years, against PoC and minority groups. It needs to stop. It needed to stop a long time ago.
