Columnist: NYPD Encouraging Drunks to Join Occupiers
- Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:20pm by
Buck Sexton
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It’s no secret that some unsavory and possibly dangerous people have camped out in Zuccotti Park in recent days, but allegations have emerged that the influx of drunk and homeless Occupiers comes from the not-so-gentle hints of NYPD officer involvement.
At least one Daily News columnist has claimed that the NYPD is running a covert campaign of sabotage against the Occupy protest by encouraging a variety of vagrants to set up in Zuccotti park for the free organic cuisine and crash pads. The author, Harry Siegel, wrote accusingly:
“The NYPD seems to have crossed a line in recent days, as the park has taken on a darker tone with unsteady and unstable types suddenly seeming to emerge from the woodwork. Two different drunks I spoke with last week told me they’d been encouraged to “take it to Zuccotti” by officers who’d found them drinking in other parks, and members of the community affairs working group related several similar stories they’d heard while talking with intoxicated or aggressive new arrivals.”
First of all, this begs the question: How can the Occupiers tell the difference between legitimate and illegitimate protestors? And even if they could tell who is most worthy among vagrants– which is dubious– shouldn’t the “99%” include the least fortunate?
It’s as though the Occupiers want to be in control of their property, and reward some protestors for their commitment and labor instead of just giving equally to all.
The NYPD, for its part, is denying any nefarious attempt to send the unwashed masses down to visit the slightly more-washed masses. Even though it would be brilliant counter-messaging to send the most problematic New Yorkers down to the protest, it doesn’t seem necessary.
Everyone in the city knows about Occupy Wall Street, and word of free pizza and a sleeping bags travels fast even without Twitter and Facebook.
While the Occupiers claim the NYPD is cynically disrupting their protest with vagrants and the troubled, they seem to be missing a whole lot of irony in the process.
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Comments (91)
ares338
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:36pmWhy should the OWS people be the only ones to enjoy the serene beauty of the park. After all drunks are people too. What about all of the social justice to be had by mingling with the real people? Come on, have some compassion!
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:22amThe funny part of the story was this line from Harry Siegel, “The NYPD seems to have crossed a line in recent days, as the park has taken on a darker tone with unsteady and unstable types suddenly seeming to emerge from the woodwork.”
Recent days? DARKER tone? Unsteady and unstable types SUDDENLY seeming to emerg from the woodwork?
Did Harry show up for the first time this afternoon? He doesn’t seem to have paid much attention to this “movement” before now.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:50amI was going to say that too, Jaycen.
Report Post »Guess I can just say, “I second that comment.”
GETLIFE
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:48amCrime, vagrancy, and a year-round tent-city-hippie-fest with free food (for the richest among them)– all brought to you by Brookfield Properties, the private owners of Zucotti Park. What usually happens to private property owners who knowingly allow a crime ridden situation to develop and thrive on their property? And now those in charge have declared they hope to handle rape cases “internally”–actually making them accomplices to violent crime. How is Brookfield getting away with this? At the very least they should have to pay back the city of New York the millions they are forcing them to spend. Am I missing something?
Report Post »reality based lifeform
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:51amthese morons under the guidance of their handlers want to destroy America by overwhelming the system . Its kind of ironic that the same tactic will work against the OWS protesters by overwhelming their resources with drunks and the homeless . Though it appears hard to discern just who is who?
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 8:09amThese OWS nimrods, in their quest to establish their little Utopian society are finding out that a functional society needs rules, and laws to keep order. The homeless by choice, drunks and criminals are going to take advantage of the gullablity of these fools.
Report Post »ricksaint
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:06amIRONY!!! We want this, that and the other thing, but we want it taken from the rich and given to us! You on the other hand, can’t have what we have worked for here! Keep your hands off our food and sleeping bags! You’re beneath us! Those damn COPS! We hate them, but we need them to remove these people, huh?!!?
Report Post »Tired_of_The_Liberal_Spin
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:29pmThis may be a little over “user” PSYCHOSIS’s head, and I do apologize if my following comments cause any struggle for comprehension due to a lack of your critical thinking skills; however, it is a sad fact that some of the protester behavior on display, and the more recently reported unwillingness to alert the police to illegal activity, will naturally attract nefarious individuals. And why let a good crisis go to waste? Blame it on the NYPD to detract blame from the movement’s social failures while furthering their agenda of demonizing the police force.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:21pmWow!! If two anonymous drunks said it; it must be true. Great journalism to call out the NYPD based on such reliable sources. I wonder if the story will provoke the OWS crowd in anyway.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:37pmMaybe the y did, maybe they didn’t. I would.
Report Post »possom
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:12pmI love it!
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:20pmDrunks/Occupiers = Same class of people
The cops just want to oversee a smaller area on their beat.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:34pmWho sayz the NYPD doesn’t have a sense of humor?
Report Post »Orion the truth hunter
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:08amThe Occupiers believe that they know how to BEST run this country, so they should consider this a small test of their abilities. I would suggest that all New Yorkers visit the park for their free food, after all, it works better when we spread the wealth around. I also suggest that all New Yorkers remember our feathered friends in this cold weather and please remember to feed the pigeons (the feathered type) at Zuccotti park. I suppose that this might lead to another sanitation problem for the Occupiers but little tests will help them be better rulers. Of course some may suggest that I am just trying to over tax their system to bring it down, to which I say libs are not the only ones that can study Cloward and Piven.
Report Post »MinorityRightsAdvocate
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:44amOrion,
Report Post »That was AWESOME! Dittos.
tricia
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:11pmIts okay to use the homeless’s soup kitchens, but they’re not welcome in the squatters tent city.
Report Post »Hypocrites
Mr.ManZ
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:06pmThis holds no truth to it what-so-ever, The lefty loons are just looking for an excuse for the foolish assjacking that is going on in all of thes so called protest and what better way to do it then blame someone else for their stupidity. Which if ya think about it, is really what the left is all about.
Report Post »beverlee
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:18pm“….Occupiers want to be in control of their property…”
First of all…so not their property.
Secondly, good idea if the police did this. The Occupiers should be all about helping the less fortunate.
At what point in time will this stop?
Report Post »Will4Freedom
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:26amThis is a small model of what’s happening on a national level. There are some well off people (protesters) offering free food to its group. Others come in to take advantage of (abuse) their generosity.
Just like the influx of illegal immigrants come to take advantage of OUR system of freebies. Schools, health care, even housing subsidies and food stamps.
I’ll bet a majority of these liberals a pro-amnesty, but against giving their stuff away to the drunks in the park. Typical liberal hypocrisy.
Report Post »tricia
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:06pmNY’s Finest, the best crime fighters in America, Keep all the criminals in one place, keeps us NYers safe. Thanks keep up the good work.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:05pmI encourage everyone you know…call them…find out if they have old stuff they want to rid themselves of that old couch in the garage. Or that old refrigerator in the garage. Maybe an old microwave ovens or an old bicycle, old shoes and clothing. And just donate it to them. Drive it down there and shake their hands and donate it. Leave it there.
Report Post »Orion the truth hunter
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:13amBut please be sure that it is not invested with bed bugs, we wouldn’t want to spread that through their stored donated sleeping bags. Fleas would probably not be a problem, after all, what is a few more.
Report Post »babylonvi
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:58pmMaybe turn it into a tent city for the unemployed. Give bus tickets to the drunks, drug addicts and the chronically unemployed to NYC. The welfare benefits are great there. No normal person would live in NYC(or Detroit, Chicago, San Fran, LA either) so maybe we should send all the miscreants there so they would be in one place and the Liberals in NYC could take care of them at
Report Post »city expense.
PATRIOTGRUNT
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:40pmWhy not send them there . They are part of the 99% are they not ?.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:47pmAll the surrounding police stations should unload their drunk tanks into the park
Report Post »Suzee
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:55pmSure why not? Soros should understand that if socialism is going to invade this American landscape, he must feed the hungry in the beginning. That is how Communism began, that is how the Democratic party got their boots on the throat of this free nation (while the elite Republicans watched & didn’t object because they want to be considered part of the elites and hold soirees for their own social agendas), & that is how Hitler sold his AGENDA to the German people!!!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:02pmI think that porta potty cleaning trucks should also dump their truck waste there too. Who could tell the difference though? I mean, it’s been cold so the protestors are already blue like the color of the chemicals in the porta potties…They smell the same too.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:07pmNo they are the real 1%.
Report Post »Ortho
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:51pmI would be willing to buy 10 one way tickets to New York for any homeless person from my state . Anyone else on board?
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:39pmWhen will these morons pack up and go home, enough foolishness already.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:47pm11/06/2012. Next question.
Report Post »Tronix
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:39pmThe cops are helping the homeless!!… The city of NY should have buses and trucks to pick up the homeless and carry them to Zucotti Park. Why don’t setting scheduled routes from New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens only for homeless? What about a VIP service for the new released inmates from Rikers?
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:37pmHow many unemployed folks do we have here on The Blaze tonight? Please, sound off.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:43pmlooks like just you
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:56pmHahaha! I have, in fact, offered every literate Blazer legitimate, gainful, potentially lucrative employment with my business (and, at worst, $10 per hour). Sadly, none of you unemployed losers have shown the slightest willingness to work for significant money. Perhaps Zuccotti is where YOU belong.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:05pmWork for a *******? Most people would starve to death first that to work for a MORON. The people who would work for you have no moral compass and no pride. You are a slimeball POS we can smell. Go back to Huffpo.
Report Post »Californiasodbuster
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:24pmSadly, 6 humanoids voted for bakko mama, out of 10TH people, i know this post sounds out of whack, but someone here knows what i mean.
Report Post »Sorry for those who don’t.
Californiasodbuster
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 12:13amTheir is an over educated idiot posting here under three different names, he thinks he is really cool, but just another self important jerk off, he needs to seek therapy , NOW
Report Post »wornoutoldfart
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:12amYO….Broker0101, I am unemployed…So what? If NYPD is doing that, I would just like to say they have my undying admiration and appreciation forever…..I think the cops in ALL the surrounding areas should follow suit….it is such a nice thing to do for those poor, unfortunate and previously ignored ninety-nine percenters,besides being totally hilarious it is just so in line with the leftist views, now the rest of the miscreant trash can get food, water, clothing, lodging, drugs, alcohol and free sex….what more can they want? I would be willing to buy some bus tickets, we are releasing a few hundred prisoners here because of over crowding, I would bet they “heart NY” and would love a trip to Zucotti park.LOL.
Report Post »robinakilt
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:36pmIf the NYPD is doing this SO WHAT! They are just helping these less fortunate get their fair share. The fact that OWS is no embracing them proves they are big ass crybabies who want to steal other peoples stuff but heaven forbid it happens to them.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:44pmGod forbid that a homeless person is entitled to the freebies these OWS are receiving. Their gimme gimme pleas only apply to them it seems. Way to go officers. Put them altogether where they are easier to keep track of.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:33pmSo let me see if I have this right, according to OWS, it is wrong for the police to be sending homeless people their way and “disrupting’ their protest, but it is ok for them to “disrupt” businesses/livelyhoods all around their protest?
Report Post »marhee9
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:41pmYou almost can’t blame the police for being frustrated by this whole thing. They have become the number one enemy of a group that has no respect for the law. It seems the OWS people expected the police to be on their side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlIS6gRq32Q
Report Post »garyM
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:32pmThere was no need to encourage drunks to join in, birds of a feather flock together, all t&&ds eventually float to the top before you flush!
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:30pmSoooooooo, they’d just fit in perfectly. Most of the occupiers act and talk like they are drunk.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Hickory
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:29pmWow! A real commune of genuine liberals we have here. One for all and all for just a few.
Report Post »MCouts
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:29pmI hope this is a lesson to all the police that have to deal with the occupiers. HELP THE HOMELESS !!! Send them to the parks!!! Don’t let the tax payers pay for a drunks night in jail…Send them to the park!!! Best ideas I have heard yet!!!
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:26pmThe occupiers are Marxist so they should be happy to take anyone and everyone. From each according to ability, to each according to need. So what if need trumps ability every time?
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:43pmSocialists and Communists only like handouts when it’s being handed to them, not when they have to hand it to somebody else. There‘s a good reason socialism and communism don’t work. In a system where everyone theoretically gets the same thing regardless of anything then everyone wants to be the recipient of the handouts and nobody wants to actually produce the stuff that’s supposed to get handed out.
This is all too hilarious though. Apparently the 1% they really object to are the filthy bums. I thought those were the people they were supposed to be fighting for. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:07pmI am afraid you are wrong. Marxist shoot non producers in the head….
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:25pmThey don’t have room for drunks,with all the Meth fiends and pot heads……
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:24pmHow intolerant of the 99%.
Report Post »beverlee
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:22pmHey. I resent that remark. I am part of that 99% and am quite tolerant. I allow them to call me part of the 99% even if I would never stand there and complain with them.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:24pmThere are good cops, there are bad cops. There are a few good journalists left; and many more bad ones. There are NO GOOD “ows” people. If there were, they have already gone home and figured out the foolishness of it all.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:24pmThey all qualify as ‘street people’.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:23pmReality bites, you spoiled, ignorant b*tches. Welcome to the real world. And to your true kindred spirits.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:45pmtry to be coherent next time
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:06pmTry to demonstrate remedial fifth grade reading comprehension skills next time.
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