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US Protesters & police clash: Staged performance?

The situation on Wall Street seems to be getting more tense by the day — protesters eager for media attention are waiting for one good cop to snap under the pressure and do something stupid. The liberal blogosphere lit up this morning with news that an “innocent” protester was “run over” and then “beaten” by NYPD officers on police scooters. For those waiting to see an anxiety riddled battle for law and order, you’ll have to keep waiting…

Take a fresh look at this video, courtesy of the New York Times:

OWS_PoliceScooter from The Local East Village on Vimeo.

From this angle, we can clearly see the unidentified protester either trip and fall or throw himself to the ground in front of the police scooters (~:18). Interestingly enough, we can also see the media’s cameras poised and snapping pictures before the scooter approaches the man on the ground. At the :25 mark, you can see the protester‘s legs perched out IN FRONT of the officer’s STOPPED scooter.  Turn the volume up and you‘ll notice that the man on the ground begins screaming before his legs even come close to the officer’s scooter:

Protesters & police clash: Staged performance?

Here’s another angle, taken from the video in our original report.  In this shot, you can clearly see the man‘s legs poised in front of the scooter’s front wheel.  At this point in the video, the man is already screaming like a banshee even though the scooter is stopped (note the riding officer’s foot planted on the ground):

Protesters & police clash: Staged performance?

The man’s reactions are what initially piqued my curiosity with this video.  First, his screams are dramatic and full-throated and sound as if he’s slowing being backed over with a pick-up truck, not a 300-pound scooter.  Secondly, with legs purportedly pinned under the scooter, the man flails his upper torso back and away (coincidentally toward the waiting cameras) instead of forward in an attempt to alleviate the pain and pressure on his legs.  This to me seems like the more logical instinctual response to such an accident, but I digress… Back to the video.

So now that we know the scooter‘s front wheel did not roll over the man’s legs, how did he come to be in this position — with his legs apparently pinned underneath the bike — in such apparent pain?

Protesters & police clash: Staged performance?

Go back to the video.  With the officer’s scooter stopped, the man can be seen swinging his legs to be positioned underneath the bike.  The final result (the picture above) implies that the cop’s front wheel ran him over.

If you continue watching the video, you can see the police pull the man out from underneath the bike to place him under arrest.  Why would the police do this if the man had simply fallen down and been run over?  The only feasible answer is that the man purposefully put himself in front of the vehicle, disobeying the officers’ orders to clear the street… that is, unless you’re a gullible protester who thinks the police go trolling around just to make trouble.

Like I said, after about a month of these protests, the officers have been through a ringer of disrespect, disobedience and are probably just plain fed up.  I think this is exactly what the protesters are hoping for.  All it takes is one disgruntled officer and a camera for the left to reinvigorate their “movement.”  They tried it today and I have no doubt they’ll soon try it again.

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Comments (10)

  • shogun459
    Posted on October 16, 2011 at 10:03am

    Also notice no tire mark on perfect black shoe.

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  • shogun459
    Posted on October 16, 2011 at 10:02am

    We are being set up.

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  • kindling
    Posted on October 15, 2011 at 6:29pm

    What a sphincter stretcher!

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  • Ex_Masshole
    Posted on October 15, 2011 at 9:54am

    You forgot to mention that the “victim,” although enduring excruciating pain and facing life-threatening injury, never dropped his camera or the object he was holding in his left hand. Not even to try to extricate his mangled legs from underneath the behemoth death machine.

    I’m assuming that “media” means “drama” in the “victim’s” native tongue.

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  • The_Modern_Patriot
    Posted on October 15, 2011 at 8:29am

    Sadly, as bad as that performance was, the protestors will still use it as justification for violence against the police.

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  • Boulderite
    Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:02am

    Reporters in Denver said they recognized some of the people from the rallies to support Wisconsin teachers. Some of the people arrested were not even from Colorado. Now Boulder is doing their thing and openly advertise their ties with moveon.org….so, no one call tell me they are organized.

    Plus…a reporter went through the crowd in Denver and talked to the unemployed…students mostly and asked them what they had majored in…the majority were graphic arts, philosphy, theatre, english. Who is going to get a job with any of those as a major? and why, even four years ago, would you major is any of those. The reporter also found some of the regular homeless folks in with the Occupy Denver–it gave them a safe place to sleep, they were fed, etc.

    Oh so interesting.

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  • The Bulletproof Patriot
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 10:17pm

    This turned out to be more epic than I intended:

    “We are the 53% – go “occupy” a bathtub while we pay your welfare”

    http://www.thebulletproofpatriot.com/blog/2011/10/we-are-the-53-go-occupy-a-bathtub-while-we-pay-your-welfare/

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  • yukon42
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 6:46pm

    This protest will turn ugly very soon. Useful fools for George Soros. I pray for this country, will it survive?

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  • Danimal98367
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:13pm

    Photo and video proof are awesome truth tellers when in full. In the bottom picture here, of the protestor’s legs under the bike (apparently having been run over) note the cameraman in the blue shirt and brown jacket immediately over the crier. The crier has already screamed for ten+ seconds and been shown with his feet free of the bike for 4+ seconds before the blue shirted, brown jacketed cameraman is in position to take a picture. The protestor had to shove his feet under the bike to get the story to look right, much too late.

    You know, not to mention the bike was stopped and honking for 3 seconds before the guy collapsed.

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  • burr99
    Posted on October 14, 2011 at 5:09pm

    If there is no violence, then just create it.

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