Police brutality and the Occupy movement
A cautionary blog posting from Forbes. The author goes way too easy on the police though. Their reactions have been much more than “absurd”, they’ve been criminal. In this vid (see posting) the police at UC Davis are spraying pepper spray on completely passive, seated protesters, like you’d spray weed-killer on your sidewalk. There have to be a couple dozen civil rights violations there, and just as many criminal assaults. Bring on the lawyers.
But it’s also important to keep in mind that no matter how much some of these police relish the violence they’re legally allowed to employ, their orders came from above. When you trace that chain of orders back towards their source you’ll be certain to come across a member of the 1%. The Stormtroopers here, just as on the big screen, are taking orders from, and serving the interests of, the Empire, not the people.
