Well, no wonder.
"Demonstrators said that the victim of the assaulting was baning on a drum to wake protesters to participate in a morning cleanup exercise, raking leaves so the city could collect them."
Never bane a drum is the lesson.
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Well, no wonder.
"Demonstrators said that the victim of the assaulting was baning on a drum to wake protesters to participate in a morning cleanup exercise, raking leaves so the city could collect them."
Never bane a drum is the lesson.
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Well, no wonder.
"Demonstrators said that the victim of the assaulting was baning on a drum to wake protesters to participate in a morning cleanup exercise, raking leaves so the city could collect them."
Never bane a drum is the lesson.
Especially never bane on a drum in the presence of grumpy people sleeping on the ground in the cold.
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Especially never bane on a drum in the presence of grumpy people sleeping on the ground in the cold.
There's something to be said for being deaf.
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Former Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis Joins With Occupy Wall Street Protesters [Video] | The New York Observer
“You should, by law, only use force to protect someone’s life or to protect them from being bodily injured OK? If you’re not protecting somebody’s life or protecting them from bodily injury, there’s no need to use force. And the number one thing that they always have in their favor that they seldom use is negotiation–continue to talk, and talk and talk to people. You have nothing to lose by that,” Mr Lewis said.
“You should, by law, only use force to protect someone’s life or to protect them from being bodily injured OK? If you’re not protecting somebody’s life or protecting them from bodily injury, there’s no need to use force. And the number one thing that they always have in their favor that they seldom use is negotiation–continue to talk, and talk and talk to people. You have nothing to lose by that,” Mr Lewis said.
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i like this guy.
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Loved this one:
“They complained about the park being dirty. Here they are worrying about dirty parks when people are starving to death, where people are freezing, where people are sleeping in subways and they’re concerned about a dirty park. That’s obnoxious, it’s arrogant, it’s ignorant, it’s disgusting,” Mr. Lewis said.
Former Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis Joins With Occupy Wall Street Protesters [Video] | The New York Observer
Couldn't agree with him more. Priorites are way out of line here.
“They complained about the park being dirty. Here they are worrying about dirty parks when people are starving to death, where people are freezing, where people are sleeping in subways and they’re concerned about a dirty park. That’s obnoxious, it’s arrogant, it’s ignorant, it’s disgusting,” Mr. Lewis said.
Former Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis Joins With Occupy Wall Street Protesters [Video] | The New York Observer
Couldn't agree with him more. Priorites are way out of line here.
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We have homeless men living a park and under a bridge in the winter! I called a shelter and I was told they had no more room , they had 20 more people than the shelter was set up for. I was trying to help a man that just became homeless. The protesters are costing the cities money as they have have cops there all the time now , and they are crying about the grass being dirty! Give me a break!!
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That's why people love "Hipster Cop".
The Hipster Cop: An Occupy Wall Street Interview with Rick Lee: Style: GQ
.......... either you can't see how incredibly annoying this is or you're simply trolling.
This reminds me of the repetitive seagulls in Finding Nemo.
MINE! MINE! MINE!
If you tell a lie big enough and often enough, eventually some people will start to believe it. . . .
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That's why people love "Hipster Cop".
The Hipster Cop: An Occupy Wall Street Interview with Rick Lee: Style: GQ
This isn't about fashion. He looks like a model posing with a background of protesters.
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Late at night on Wednesday, protesters at Zuccotti Park in New York were outnumbered by police. But every now and then a new protester would come into the park and just stare at the space like they were looking at it for the first time.
Jo Robbin, 29, was one of them. One of the first things she did as soon as she made it past the security check point was pull up her sleeves to show the red markings the plastic ties had left her.
She pointed toward one end of the park, where the kitchen used to be. A slight rain was falling, which the flood lights that sit at the park's floor illuminated and made look like specs of snow. The kitchen, said Robbin, was where she locked arms with other Occupy Wall Street protesters to try to stop police and sanitation workers from dismantling the encampment.
Robbin was arrested and Wednesday night, Zuccotti park was a changed place. The tents were gone, the library was gone, most of the people were gone. Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the eviction of the protesters in a pre-dawn raid on Tuesday.
But many of the people who weaved in and out of the park said they were ready to be arrested again on Thursday, when Occupy Wall Street plans a series of demonstrations beginning with a march toward the New York Stock Exchange at 7 a.m.
Robbin said she had joined the protest because she worries about her 10-year-old son. She said she worries that she doesn't have the money to pay for his college education and that by the time he grows up, he won't have access to a decent job.
"The government I was taught about in school doesn't exist," she said. Zuccotti Park was picked by the protesters for good reason. It's a small, urban park surrounded by tall buildings. Just across the street, there's a big Bank of America branch.
So when Robbin spoke about who the government listens to, she pointed to the tops of the buildings. She said she joined the Occupy Wall Street movement to demand "drastic changes in the way we are represented."
On the other side of the park, was a couple in their 50s. Dawn Thompson and Mark Wood said they travelled from their farm in upstate New York to Brooklyn to look for painting jobs.
Thompson has been at the park off and on, she said, since the occupation started two months ago. Back in 1999, she said, the couple refinanced their farm for $47,000. The jobs stopped coming and they fell behind one month; the payment ballooned the next month, so they fell behind yet again. That has gone on for months and she's at a breaking point. She also says two of her kids went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and getting them the medical treatment they need has been a an exercise in jumping through hoops.
"Everything in this world is a fight," she said. Both Thompson, 53, and her husband, 52, don't have health insurance and don't have a retirement account.
The plans for Thursday, include quite a bit of civil disobedience. In fact, Mother Jones reported today that some of the members of the Occupy Movement were getting trained for how to "gracefully get arrested."
Thompson said she's never been arrested. But she will be at Zuccotti at 7 a.m.
"I'm ready," she said. "I'm ready to stand up for what's right."
At A Quiet Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street Prepares For Big Protests : The Two-Way : NPR
Jo Robbin, 29, was one of them. One of the first things she did as soon as she made it past the security check point was pull up her sleeves to show the red markings the plastic ties had left her.
She pointed toward one end of the park, where the kitchen used to be. A slight rain was falling, which the flood lights that sit at the park's floor illuminated and made look like specs of snow. The kitchen, said Robbin, was where she locked arms with other Occupy Wall Street protesters to try to stop police and sanitation workers from dismantling the encampment.
Robbin was arrested and Wednesday night, Zuccotti park was a changed place. The tents were gone, the library was gone, most of the people were gone. Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the eviction of the protesters in a pre-dawn raid on Tuesday.
But many of the people who weaved in and out of the park said they were ready to be arrested again on Thursday, when Occupy Wall Street plans a series of demonstrations beginning with a march toward the New York Stock Exchange at 7 a.m.
Robbin said she had joined the protest because she worries about her 10-year-old son. She said she worries that she doesn't have the money to pay for his college education and that by the time he grows up, he won't have access to a decent job.
"The government I was taught about in school doesn't exist," she said. Zuccotti Park was picked by the protesters for good reason. It's a small, urban park surrounded by tall buildings. Just across the street, there's a big Bank of America branch.
So when Robbin spoke about who the government listens to, she pointed to the tops of the buildings. She said she joined the Occupy Wall Street movement to demand "drastic changes in the way we are represented."
On the other side of the park, was a couple in their 50s. Dawn Thompson and Mark Wood said they travelled from their farm in upstate New York to Brooklyn to look for painting jobs.
Thompson has been at the park off and on, she said, since the occupation started two months ago. Back in 1999, she said, the couple refinanced their farm for $47,000. The jobs stopped coming and they fell behind one month; the payment ballooned the next month, so they fell behind yet again. That has gone on for months and she's at a breaking point. She also says two of her kids went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and getting them the medical treatment they need has been a an exercise in jumping through hoops.
"Everything in this world is a fight," she said. Both Thompson, 53, and her husband, 52, don't have health insurance and don't have a retirement account.
The plans for Thursday, include quite a bit of civil disobedience. In fact, Mother Jones reported today that some of the members of the Occupy Movement were getting trained for how to "gracefully get arrested."
Thompson said she's never been arrested. But she will be at Zuccotti at 7 a.m.
"I'm ready," she said. "I'm ready to stand up for what's right."
At A Quiet Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street Prepares For Big Protests : The Two-Way : NPR
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I hope so, too.
He's not.
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