Police Pepper Spray Seated Occupy Protesters at UC Davis
- Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:34am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A University of California at Davis police officer uses pepper spray to try to break up a group of Occupy demonstrators on campus Friday. (Image source: Davis Enterprise)
Police at the University of California at Davis dismantled an Occupy encampment Friday, arresting at least 10 protesters, nine of whom were students.
Videos have surfaced on YouTube of police in riot gear pepper spraying a line of protesters who had linked arms and sat down cross-legged on the pavement to protect their camp. In the footage, an officer is seen spraying the demonstrators at point-blank range.
A total of 11 people received medical treatment on the campus and two were transported to the hospital, Sacramento’s KTXL-TV reported.
“Police came and brutalized them and tore their tents down and all that stuff. It was really scary. It felt like there was anarchy everywhere,” student Hisham Alihbob told local station KCRA-TV.
Students chanted “Shame on you! Shame on you!” as officers dragged the pepper sprayed demonstrators away.
Image source: Davis Enterprise
UC Davis officials had said the group may occupy the quad for as long as it wants, but could not set up camp.
“It’s not safe for multiple reasons,” UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza said.
Police reportedly gave the students a 3 p.m. Friday deadline to remove the 28 tents from campus and showed up at the appointed time when they did not comply.
Spicuzza defended the use of pepper spray, saying officers used force out of concern for their own safety after they were surrounded by students.
“If you look at the video you are going to see that there were 200 people in that quad,” Spicuzza told CBS Sacramento. “Hindsight is 20-20 and based on the situation we were sitting in, ultimately that was the decision that was made.”
Authorities are reviewing video of the incident, Spicuzza said.
Image source: Davis Enterprise
Officers left the quad area after making their arrests, leaving the field in a direction not obstructed by seated protesters, CBS reported.
Demonstrators were protesting a recently approved tuition increase in the University of California system, according to KTXL.
More photographs of the incident are available at the Davis Enterprise here.
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Comments (744)
BrerRabbit
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:17amOrkin is a good term. Varmit eradication!
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:24amThis is what caught my attention.
“Police came and brutalized them and tore their tents down and all that stuff. It was really scary. It felt like there was anarchy everywhere,” student Hisham Alihbob told local station.”
Leave it to a freak to come to that conclusion. “Hisham Alihbob”. I personally think Hisham should be sent to the principals office, receive detention, or maybe even have the Gym Teacher break out the paddle for corrective measures.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:41amThe news media is insulting America‘s intelligence with it’s ongoing coverage of the OWS’ FleaBagger Tantrums.
If the media would shut off its cameras and refuse to be enticed into showing up, the FleaBaggers would lose their reason to indulge in their public displays of depravity. As it is, the media has reduced itself to being FleaBagger Puppets — dancing to every tune the FleaBaggers play.
Contact the major networks, folks, and encourage them to step up and out of the OWS gutters and into being mature, responsible adults whose modus operandi is integrity. Let them know that America Is Fed-Up With OWS And The News Media That Is Fueling It!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:47amDon’t Squirt me Bro……LMAO…..
Report Post »Formula382
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:48amThe crowd chanting “shame on you”, cracks me up!
I’m thinking, perhaps the reason these kids are so misled and feel entitled to protest something of which they haven’t a clue is because the extent of their punishment as children was mommy saying, “shame on you”.
We‘re all paying the price for a generation that hasn’t earned anything, hasn’t won anything (remember they couldn’t keep score) and has never felt the rath of a real disciplinary action.
They will get theirs soon enough, keep it up punks!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:01amHey
Report Post »You’re getting Pepper Spray on my new Mac Book. My trust fund just bought this for me along with my new Beemer.
Hey you, leave my surf board alone, when I leave here me and Habib are gonna , smoke a dubie and ride some waves. Then we are going down to Rodeo Dr. and pick up some new 300 dollar jeans. These are getting a bit crusty.
poorrichard09
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:03amObey the law! The rest of us do.
Report Post »helicop
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:07amFormula 382, get out of my head. That was the exact thought I had when I heard the shame on you stuff. Too funny. I could just hear mommy and daddy saying it to their little precious sheltered babies. Ha ha.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:16amIf you own a gun, uphold the constitution, don‘t want to pay taxes and don’t agree with the current regime…. You ARE Next.
Report Post »This is a warm-up folks. Are the cops willing to forget the constitution, their oaths and attack their own people? yep. this is exactly what happened in Germany Pre WW1.
decendentof56
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:17amWabbit……
I hope not everyone is fooled by these idiots.
They are great actors, and some deserve Oscars for showing the ‘pain’ they have had inflicted on them.
None of them have been pepper-sprayed!
AzDebi
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:17amYou tellin’ me they actually got something “right” for a change? Some of them were protesting a tuition increase and were actually BLAMING the university itself? SHOCKING, simply SHOCKING! (Hum, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while”…)
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:20amWabbit……. From my above post.
See how easy it is to make statements, just like the left does.
Report Post »Just deny that ANY OWS’er has ever been touched by the police. Call them liars, haters, racists.
See….its easy!
I feel no guilt whatsoever for speaking the truth.
We American Patriots need to learn how to play the game.
Marineraider
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:21amYou call them vermin, they call us greedy vermin…..wow we have come so far in modern civilization…..some of the people hold similar concerns for our country as we do…..
1) large corporations are in bed with our politicians and use the corrupt relationship to advance their agenda and personal wealth
Report Post »2) Certain people do not have the law applied to them the way it is applied to the least of these
decendentof56
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:22amYou OWS’ers want to lie and distort?………..
Report Post »It works both ways!
decendentof56
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:25amAgain……
That yellow spray was food coloring! The police know it, and so do the protestors!
You are all fools if you think they were pepper-sprayed.
Obama Bin Lying
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:32amHere is an interesting thought. If the cops tell you to move, then move. You won’t have to worry about getting pepper sprayed, Just a thought
Report Post »Unstable Phenomenon
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:45amJust like the typical sheople movement, you could start chanting, I am stupid, and these dunderheads would follow right on que.
Report Post »BOGOTSTOGO
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:10amJust think of the temper tantrum these kids will throw when they find out that their degree in Transgender Hispanic Lesbian Bisexual Studies wont get them a 100k a year job like there socialist professor promised
Report Post »Br@dley
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:14amwhat’s wrong with you people. pepper spraying non-violent protestors…
is this a nanny state or police state?
i guess they should have done the same to MLK too huh?
jesus christ, what happened to us as a country where we celebrate police brutality?
Report Post »YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:19am@Formula
Right, blame my generation…. You forget you raised my generation (or neglected to). You forget what generation is CURRENTLY running this country and doing a great job at running it straight into the ground.
My generation, where everyone got a trophy… Well who bought those trophies and awarded them, who decided that was a good policy… Again, not my generation…. Your so good at pointing out my generation’s flaws, however you might want to take a hard look in the mirror at what caused this current state of unrest, and decline of our once great nation.
Enjoy these yahoo’s running the show in years to come, while your in front of the death panel pleading for why you deserve life-saving treatment. It will be my generation who decides your not worth saving because your no longer useful to society, and its because you failed at raising a generation who championed morals and ethics.
Good Job ;)
Report Post »dangmc
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:20amYou go, Brerrabbit!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:27amYou have to be kidding, 80% of these brats have a silver spoon sticking from their rear ends – what the heck are they orotesting about? Stale caviar and flat champaigne? Idiots – I’d walk a mile for my camel – just to blow smoke in their faces – that would have cleared that park faster than you could say ‘shame’…
Report Post »stephenb.net
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:33amThe police were wrong in this case. These were students protesting the increase of tuition for the second time in a year. Their protest was peaceful and not at all warranting of the pepper spray that they received. Pepper spray is to disarm or impede the actions of a violent individual and not for punishing people for the lawful right to protest. These were students on campus not urban campers blocking city streets and causing mayhem.
Report Post »CobiusMaximus
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:42amI am losing faith in my fellow Blazers. WTF is wrong with yall? These students were only guilty of being complete morons. The police had no right to do this to them. Pepper spray a peaceful protest? Next they will be spraying a Tea Party rally because the police “feel en-circled”.
Please listen to yourselves. Ignoring the Constitution is never justifiable, even if it is to beat up some stupid hippies who are protesting themselves.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:42amHi youngbloodnews. Agree with you but we know there are many that are individuals, like you, who will change the course back to the reason America came to be and teach their offsprings back to basics. I did not have children, however, would have been proud to be your parent because you stand out from the crowds and think about your future and the future of America. God bless.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:46amOh yea!!!
NEOCON BOOTLICKING TIME!!!
Oh yea, baby, them Nazis are GETTIN‘ THEM SOME AIN’T THEY!!
YEA JUST KEEP ABUSING THE PROTESTORS YOU BIG FAT SLOPPY NAZI THUG!
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:49amThis isn’t the first time these Nazis have done this to your fellow countrymen.
They corralled those women at the beginning of the protest in NY and did the exact same thing to them.
This is what your tax dollars pay for, brutal Nazi Thugs parading as public servants.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:51amThis is a schism between TRUE conservatives and NEOCONS.
NEOCONS LICK THEIR BOOTS AND LIKE THIS TYPE OF BRUTALITY.
TRUE CONSERVATIVES ARE APPALLED BY THIS TYPE OF NAZI THUGGERY.
Report Post »The Truth Seeker
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:01amBr@dley,
The protestors were told to break up camp by 3pm. They did not. I am positive the officers told them what was coming. They chose not to move. The officer in the video even seems to hold the can up one last time as if to say “last chance” before he sprays.
In MLK’s day it would have been fire hoses and billy clubs. I think the pepper spray is an indication of just how far we have advanced as a society.
And, having said all this… I have two kids that will be in college soon. And I am disgusted by the fact that while I have been saving since before they were born with intentions of helping them with school costs. Universities across the country continue to raise tuition at a rate far greater than my income (savings) has increased. Statistics for costs on a four year degree are staggering. So I am not opposed to peaceful opposition….but as so many have said here, they have to obey the law.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:04amOh how convenient, you post this story a day later on the weekend to try to bury it.
Weak.
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:05amI love the first couple of seconds of this video.
Report Post »Awesome!
V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:08amI absolutely can’t WAIT to see some of you neocons treated this way by these Nazi thugs. You’ll be whining about it just like you whine about the TSA groping you at the airport, when the Nazis have been groping people in urban communities for decades.
Yea, they’re gonna treat you just like they treat urban minorities, and you’re gonna LIKE it.
You cowards.
Report Post »Your day is coming, you coward sitting behind your computer.
Br@dley
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:12amcool, so they should pepper spray anyone doing anything they’re told not to do?
kids with lemonade stands (without permits)?
amish folks selling unpastuerized milk?
come on man, these kids were SITTING DOWN. that is no excuse for police violence. and PEPPER SRAY HURTS. i had to get sprayed twice while in the military.
Report Post »JL320
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:30amI was thinking the same thing. Terminex should of been behind them for a follow up spray.
Report Post »Joey8
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:37amanyone else think of the movie “Babe” when they’re chanting “shame on you”? Remember the sheep saying “Baa ram you”? Fits doesn’t it?
Report Post »Marci
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:52amTheGrass—you have that right. However, the left is intent on co-opting this movement. They are going to suddenly “come to the rescue” with ridiculous entitlement legislation of historic proportions in hopes of getting a tidal wave of communist red votes. As for the “anarchy everywhere” statement from the idiot student—if it were anarchy, you’d be fending for yourself, no police assistance.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:57amit is also reported that 2 of students had their i-pads scratched and 11 bmws were towed for illegal parking.
Report Post »redgypsy
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:04pmIMHO, as Descendent of 56 says, that was not pepper-spray. No one reacted correctly (although there is some great “painful” acting)–note the guy facing right into the spray “at 13 sec, and again at 20) and merely wiping his face. Pepper spray doesn’t let you merely wipe your face. What is going on?
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:09pmGang! When a police officer asks you to move it, you move it, period. You able bodied people in this protest movement must like the filth and lice and worse. Too many are being supported by a trust and have no idea why they’re protesting.
Sure, Wall Street has skrewed many of us, but my anger is more with some in congress who’ve gotten rich off the inside trading which they deemed legal for themselves, but not for us. What our Prez has done to the general public spending 4 trillion in 3 years is enough to make me want to get out and join you, except you people have no real goals. If I get in a fight, it’s for a sound purpose, not to have a “fun” time and smell to high heaven.
If you want to fight a purpose, go after our government, congress, unions and all the agencies who’ve made it impossible to do business in America. Environmental protection, my foot, they are more like “lets’ skrew the people” and save the darter snail. Bring back common sense and our businesses.
Report Post »Paradigmm
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:18pmJB, you hit the nail on the head. What most here don’t understand is that this is OUR first amendment right! You may not agree with their message or their cause but they have every right to peacefully demonstrate. Sitting in a line with arms locked and legs crossed seems pretty peaceful to me, and if these cops (paramilitary force) was so worried about the crowd, then why didn’t they pepper spray them instead of the few sitting on the ground? For the rest of you, you may decry them now but tomorrow when you want to stand up for your right and get a face full of pepper spray, will you still think the police did the right thing?
Report Post »TheWatchmanSeeth
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:45pmWhat a waste of pepper spray, cattle prods work wonders, Tell them folks to move once and when they refuse,ZAP!,,,every tom-dick-and-jane will be hi-stepping quickly.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:48pmThe tuition scandal should be a MAJOR issue in the presidential elections. We need to know how the candidates are going to deal with the federal government’s monopoly on student loans.
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:52pmThey should be spraying them with .223′s
Report Post »AhLeahIris
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:58pmI thought they were “the same as the Tea party”. Not so much: http://wp.me/p1HGwx-1yq
Report Post »stephenb.net
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:16pmThese comments represent the harsh, cold blooded, mean spirited stereotype the radical left is always trying to put on conservatives. First it was the left dismissing logic and the laws of this land for an emotion based reactionary ideology and not the right is beginning to adopt it. STOP!
Report Post »These are kids, on campus protesting tuition hikes when the regents and administration get rich. These kids have a valid point and deserve to be heard. Do you know anything about UC Davis or are you all so heart hardened that anyone who doesn’t have gray hair with a protest sign equals radical lazy bum in your minds? These are biology students and agriculture students and the people who graduate from UC Davis go on to change the world in positive ways by making our crops yeild more with less disease, food safety, wine production, dairy production, farming. These aren’t bums taking mom and dads money to go party. Straighten up Blaze and stop thinking with your emotions and start using your brains.
tifosa
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:33pmWhat kind of partisan paralysis must you have to believe that this is ok?
Report Post »Somebody’s worried about OWS though: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/CLGF-msnbc.pdf
Hint, when you’re given a one-sided barrage of information to stir emotion, rather than to inform, you’re probably being herded.
Swallow whole.
r5473c
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:48pmOur enemies must delight to see such unpatriotic hatred of Americans by other Americans. Such lack of manliness, integrity, and fear and loathing of your own countrymen. Beware the propogandists turning you against your own. What motivates those who want working people to hate working people? America, destroyed from within, then from without. The rich will move on, and leave us in their rubble. Free markets. If you want to compete with a foreigner, you have to live like one. Some of these countries have annual wages of a few hundred dollars. Whether you realize it or not, that’s what the media is leading you to support. That’s the future they have you clamoring for.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:49pmBrutalized? Apparently theyve never protested in syria. I bet their smug little faces were on fire! At least they were nice enough to give the police permission to leave.
Shame on you? Really? What a tired chant. Obama was right-weve lost our imagination. At least mix a few the whole world is watchings in at some point. Whose univ? Our univ! Oh ok. Just payback the student loan and itll be yours. Little eichmanns.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:57pmKALISH, your appetite may be best satisfied in a different country.
Report Post »http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.223_Remington
SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:03pmOoh the propagandists have moved into the blaze! Tea partys wouldnt be sprayed, we follow the law. I know thats a tough concept to wrap your lips around hippies. Protest tuition hikes in tje classroom. Those are the folks receiving the money. This protest was no different than any other ows protests. Dont try to spin it mr bernays.
And geez, little whiner, nobody has to teach you morals. Right and wrong. Theres your lesson mom and dad didnt teach you. Now get back in your tarp, your lib honey wants some more of your lice infested love.
Report Post »Dinkiecb
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:13pmI recall the 60‘s the cops use to if necessary bring in the national guard and everybody’d get their heads busted … maybe it’s time to do it again since these “youngsters” seem to want to break the law…like their grandparents
Report Post »A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:32pmThe best answer to the Occupy is this:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAOrT0OcHh0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Very funny. Very true.
TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:46pm1. IF it’s true that the students were protesting rising college tuitions – then GOOD for them! FINALLY some of them figured out that it’s the Universities that are screwing them over. Maybe if they had a couple brain cells among them, they could figure out a way to do it that wasn’t illegal.
2. IF they are a part of OWS, then it’s also likely they are infected with communist radical ideas, which will work against them in the public eye.
3. IF they were setting up tents and an encampment illegally on the property (which is what the footage looks like), then they deserve to be forcibly removed.
4. EVERYONE is weary of hearing people complain and whine that they were pepper-sprayed, as if it were some atrocity. TOTAL HYPOCRISY! On one hand they’ll take pics and video and brag about their dedication to “the cause”, and on the other scream and cry and whine as if they were being brutallized.
5. OWS has a REPUTATION for violence against LE with bricks, rocks, firebombs, razors, etc.
YOU CAN’T have it both ways, OWS. If you break laws, don’t cry when you face the consequences. I applaud students protesting tution hikes, but I utterly denounce the OWS global communist agenda.
TO the POLICE: you did what you needed to do. No one was injured. You enforced the law. THANK YOU for not allowing yet another OCCU-POOP tent city to pop up and draw out the rape-y unwashed murdering commy nutjobs. Maxine Waters may not care, but the citizens do. We love and support our
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:25pmOnly thing I hate more than a smelly socialist hippy; a jack-booted [union/socialist] thug.
All you had to do was cuff them. If they fight, THEN spray. You should have had your ***es handed to you.
Of course, to begin with, your existence is unconstitutional. Trying to get the sycophants on the blaze to understand that shows why this country is over. Support elected sheriffs. **** the police. No FEDERAL money for local law enforcement.
Report Post »Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:50pmCould you “patriots” have any less credibility? There is no more hate-filled group than the Tea Party. That’s why white power groups like it.
Report Post »White Gun Fodder
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:09pmWE KNOW NEW MINISTRY IS LYING ABOUT EVENT
When photograph was about to be taken Terrorist Mob sat down. Where are the water cannons. The police should be using high pressure water cannons. Soaking wet people will end their terroristic activity.
Only the TEA can save us now.
Report Post »ohnomrbill
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:51pmcant wait until they start pepper spraying the tea party, if its happening to the ows crowd it can happen to the tea party, then will see what the thought on that is
TEA
Report Post »OxyCon
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:58pmI’m thinking more along the lines of RAID:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riMqHX–sQ0
IMAWAKENOW
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 6:26pmI am not buying this at face value. If you have ever been exposed to pepper spray, it not only burns but is extreamly irritating to your lungs. These people just sat there getting a face full and didn’t seem to have a lot of difficulty breathing. Second, when was the last time we saw the police spray the protesters? This seems staged, perhaps by the university itself.
Report Post »MsUnderestimated
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:25pmOC Spray is appropriate.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:33pmProbably the only shower any of those goofs have had in some time.
Report Post »frodis
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:53pmComply and you’ll be ok. You just can’t make your own rules. Shame on you for not complying by the law. Period. Never see the Tea Party disrespect the law.
Report Post »navypop
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:15pmthe police should just leave and let the liberals have each other ..if the cameras leave the interest in all this will go too.
Report Post »Thelastpatriot65
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:25pmWhat they don;t show is all of the crap the cops took before they regained control…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:36pmWhat kind of rifles were the Police carrying? Paint Ball Guns?
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:10pmMace…. it’s Raid for Liberals. The problem is that just spraying is never really enough. You need to fog the whole damn place with tear gas to really clean it up. I want to hear them try to scream “Shame on you” when there’s suddenly mucous coming out of their noses so fast that it hangs from their heads to the ground. How do I know what tear gas does?……LOL. Gas Chamber in Boot camp.
Also… is it me or is there like no testosterone left among the wussy protestors. That must have been one moment of cathartic relief for the cops. I felt good just watching him mace the crap out of those little commies.
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:44pmKid hits bee hive with big stick. Bees (police) fight back and defend themselves. Kid says, I don’t know why they came after me. I did nothing to provoke retaliation.
Report Post »thecid100
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:05pmTo: Br@dley, Stephenb.net, Cobinsmaximus, V-Man Mace, and Tifosa-
“UC Davis officials had said the group may occupy the quad for as long as it wants, but could not set up camp. “It’s not safe for multiple reasons,” UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza said. Police reportedly gave the students a 3 p.m. Friday deadline to remove the 28 tents from campus and showed up at the appointed time when they did not comply.
Not so hard to understand. The university faced possible civil liablility if they acted differently. People who trespass are subject to the law, and should be arrested. You don’t have the right to protest any damn way you want. Also, there is no reason a policeman should be injured on the job grappling with some jerk who’s locked arms with another protestor. Those men and women are fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, and do not deserve to be called Nazi’s just because they serve society by enforcing the law and arresting criminals.
Peace requires order. Sometimes order requires force. God bless these officers whose lives are constantly on the line, and who face the maltreatment of those they serve, and who should appreciate their sacrifice but do not.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:12pmOne thing I think we can all agree in is that the Government has the right to prevent people from assembling in protest of Government policies. When the Government told them to move they didn’t. The Government has the right to kick people off of public property using whatever force in necessary. The Goverment has the right to suppress dissent.
Report Post »thecid100
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:41pmHey, JZS,
I think we can all agree that the university is a private entity and not part of “evil” Government. The universtity does indeed have the right to kick people off their property, just as you and I do when someone trespasses on our property. As citizens, we all pay taxes to the government, who hires cops to enforce laws we all vote on. Those who violate the law are often arrested to protect society from chaos. And yes, police officers do have the right to kick someone off private property using whatever force is necessary. It has nothing to do with suppressing dissent.
Hope that helps.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:11amthecid100, if that’s private property, and I’ll take your word for it, then yes they do. I agree. I‘m not sure it’s wise, or that the police needed to pepper spray everyone in the face to get there, but I agree with you.
And you are correct. The police are a socialist entity. Police buildings are owned by the government, as are police cars and guns and other equipment; and policemen and women are paid by the government. The “government” meaning you and me. So this is another example of the socialistic part of government regulating society.
Report Post »SomeRandomPerson
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:43amIt’s pretty sad that I have to reply to the first post to have my comment show up on the first page. Blaze, please fix this. Post newer comments first.
Report Post »WarVet
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 4:31amGuys,
Report Post »At least they are protesting at the right place, the schools are ripping off students and parents!!!
Check out how high it cost for schools now days, it has gone up more than anything else. Do these socialist teaches (professors) deserve this high of pay for indoctrination!!! I do believe that the students should have left when told to leave, but they just want to cause problems so they can say the cops are bad, when they are just doing their jobs. The unions and this administration are behind all of these problems!!!
V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:22amTheWatchmanSeeth
You ignorant fool. Humans are not cattle. Cattle prods are for cattle. I’m a descendant of black slaves and we fought tooth and nail not to be treated like chattle/cattle. GTFO of America, you bootlicking sheep if you like seeing your fellow countrymen cattleprodded.
Kalish
They should spray them with .223s? Well, hell, they should just put the Nazi trinkets back on their Nazi Uniforms and “Be all that they can be, in the Naaazis”, then they can all get on a time machine back to Nazi Germany.
SLAPTHELEFT says “The Tea Party followed the law…etc…I‘m a prissy little girl sitting behind my computer talking trash about my fellow countrymen who’re protesting and licking Nazi boots!”
Get a clue, I’m a Tea Party member too, and I know one thing ALL Tea Party members should know…the Tea Party threw TEA INTO THE HARBOR. What would cops do to the Tea Party today…tase them to death after choking them with pepper spray…
Dinkiecb wants to see another Kent State because he’s a coward who finds it easier to lick boots and point fingers than stand with his fellow countrymen…
Report Post »WatchingAndListening
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 3:05amBlaze, you seriously need to consider getting this set of videos. It puts a fantastic set of context to it and shows beyond a doubt (at least in my mind) that the police did not act incorrectly. They were surrounded and the crowd said they weren’t going to let them leave. The video being shown is the backup that was called in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwFa5Kq4Rfo&feature=related
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3A0d9fHWag&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXk9wYWIE8
ldsdad85
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:06amAbout time the cops stood up to them. This was so appropriate Good Job Guys!!!
Report Post »Live_Free_orDie
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:17amGet more pepper spray!!!
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:05amI personally prefer the billy club – its more personal and satisfying
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:24am.
Report Post »The cops should have turned the dogs loose on ‘em, then that guy Bear could have filmed another one of those deodorant commercial’s………..
MitchRappInCharge
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:24amTHe movement should never had a chance to grow. These “people” should have been cleaned out of their areas the first day they arrived.
Protesters have no right to harrass people, inflict property damages and force the cities to spend millions on additional security.
I have no sympathy for any of these people.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:07amMy feeling is? Too bad that wasn’t anthrax, or ricin getting sprayed on them.
Report Post »I-90 Guy
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:07amCobius..
Report Post »you gotta be kidding. They were in violation, were given verbal commands to which they ignored. Ask any police officer about the use of force continuum. The next step was some form of pain compiance. Pepperspray, or manual pain manipulation, taser.
Mil-Dot
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:45amYou know what Cobius. In a way you are right about the cops. They are there to protect mostly the crooked politcians and their pensions. But what really angers folks is that ONLY conservatives have to pay for permits, get bodily injury insurance, obey the terms of the permit etc. Progs don’t even have to have a permit. Only the TEA party people have to do such. This double standard angers non-progs and thus you withness the joy when the commies are clubbed and sprayed with tear gas.
Report Post »chinable
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:07pmClearly that’s the way to justify cracking down on protesters. More pain. Works every time. That’s why my one-eared doberman gets his ear twisted every time he shows discontent …
Nobody thinks the police are the Empire (SFW: http://tinyurl.com/bv4bwrc) but nobody (who is sane) really thinks it’s a good idea to clinically douse a line of dumb students with pepper spray. If you do think that’s 100% cool, then you don‘t want to run into a person who’s a lot like you and carries a concealed piece.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:14pmDont feel to bad guys. These people probably got extra credit for their work. There are consequenves for actions. This is a republic. Follow the rules. Dont like the rules? Mobilize to change them.
There are other colleges that cost less and you can have an equally worthless degree.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:20pmI’d rather get hit in the face or have a fire hose turned on me than getting a dose of pepper spray. I don‘t get why the cops don’t just pick them up and arrest them, if the kids resist or fight, beat the hell out of em. Side note, UC Davis is a stinky place, smells like manure all around that campus. Yes yes, agricultural school n what not. Alright, next story.
Report Post »Rightallalong
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:33pmI am with you Cobius – the police are out of line. And for the pain compliance – thats probably right out of the Nazi/Stalinist play book. Dont get me wrong, I would double tap one of these communist MOFOS in a heart beat of they were threatening my family or my property. Seeing this should make everyone just as afraid of the cops as these punk a$$ little commies.
I think all of you celebrating this should be concerned when you are in a soup line someday and you do not kiss the boots of your LORD Policeman fast enough and he gives you a blast of pepper spray…the tyranny is coming and the police are loving it!!
Report Post »Stalinist from Balkan
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:04amThis policeman is tipical right-wing.Pig face,pig weight,pig brain,pig personaliti.Fat ugly bastard is probably jealous on this students,coz they are younger and beter looking than him,and probably didn’t wanted to corn haul him,coz right-winger are famous as sexual deviants and perverts.Lowest of the lowlifes are the one that brake their own rules,and you right winger brake the rules, that you set ,all the time.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 8:58amCongratulations people you fell right into it. There is no winner in this scenario. The object of this movement is (not to bring attention to college tuition )… But division among the people of this country. And by most of the comments I have read “here at the Blaze” that’s what has happened. Your divided….!
We are most AMERICANS and human .
We feel and have compassion in our hearts for our fellow Human Beings.
Some see an injustice…Others see people being used ..
Others see useful idiots…Some see Gestapo type tactics.
Heartless Bastards getting to serve-out their own Brand of Justice.
Some see Police sworn to up-hold Law and Order.
Others see an attempt to (nip it in the bud),
what is spreading like fire, across the United states.
This is a perfectly orchestrated dance.
A group of people that wants to dismantle our countries “rule of law”.
They want to replace it with one, closer to their “hearts desire”..
You better STEP BACK AND LOOK AGAIN…Before its to late.
They already paired us all up …..With a dance partner .
Report Post »Cemetery
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:16amShould spray them more like the cockroaches they are.
Report Post »db321
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:39pmHey wait – go back – you missed one!
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:58pmIt is so funny the crowd is chastising the same police that they will be screaming for help to, when they turn on one another.
I think we can shout them up by giving them all a trophy, that is what they are used to.
Report Post »OxyCon
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 5:59pmLike this?:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riMqHX–sQ0
JDF10487
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:15amPresumably the Officers issued verbal commands that were not complied with before using the pepper spray. It would seem that the officers knew that the protestors planned to physically resist the Officers attempts to physically remove them. Consequently, the Officers made a decision to spray the protestors pre-emptively knowing that this would take much of the fight out of protestors. By spraying the protestors pre-emptively the Officers effectively softened them up and greatly increased their own safety.
It’s kind of the equivalent of carpet bombing a hostile territory before putting boots on the ground.
While being pepper sprayed does cause a great deal of physical discomfort, it is a lot less harmful than being hit with an impact weapon. The effects of pepper pray do wear off in about 20 to 40 minutes and can be treated by washing the eyes and face with large amounts of water.
While one might feel like they are going to die after being pepper sprayed, pepper spray is relatively harmless and does no permanent damage.
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:30amIgnorance abounds. I’m ashamed to think that some of you are on my side in most issues.
The law is very clear, cops don’t get to take presume the protesters are going to resist. The cops should try to move or arrest them, then react to what the protesters actually do…not what they think they might do.
How ignorant to say that the only other option available to the gestapo was to beat them with imact weapons. That’s just dumb.
As to your disinformation about pepperspray, evidently you don’t read. If you did you’d know that a certain percentage of people whose health may be compromised already, can die from pepperspray.
Think before you write, people. You’re making our side look shallow and stupid.
Report Post »chasbronson
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:00amU,h D Harry, they were resisting already.The police should have asked them whether they preferred skunk ,or pepper ,or club ,and shackles. These spoiled kids probably don’t even pay their own tuition.This whole trouble making movement is a drain on the productive people in this country.Why do you feel the need to appease it.
Report Post »Tiredof2partyropeadope
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:05amUC Davis must believe in their property rights… You do realize that “occupy” seeks to destroy the notion of “property rights.” When property rights are no longer of value, there are no rights…
Pepper spray was the right countermeasure imo.
Report Post »LOLReally
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:10am@DirtyHarry you should be ashamed of the abundance of ignorance in your comment. The Gestapo? Really? What does “The law is very clear, cops don’t get to take presume the protesters are going to resist.” have to do with the protesters getting sprayed? It’s not even english. You are assuming that the cops just walked up there for no reason without saying anything and sprayed them. None of us are that dumb as to think they acted without multiple verbal warnings and orders to move aside. Your clever editing is not that clever, we see 1 second before the spraying. Again your ignorance is evident here, you dismiss the fact they had formed a human fence preventing the officers from moving any closer, you are soo dumb you missed that or you see it but your just lying that you didn’t. You also lie about not knowing about the 3pm deadline they had to clean up. So please spare us your druged out wit, claiming we are all as dumb as you are only makes you look even dumber. Your conservative camoflage is not working as well as you think it is. “other ways to get them to move” HAHA Are you suggesting sitting down and having tea so they can ask nicely? Do you think that would work?
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:25ami’m willing to bet, they did just walk up and spray them without asking them to move.
Report Post »drago
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:43am@dirtyharry aka encinom
Report Post »“cops dont get to take presume” huh? Time to get back on your meds kid……
realjohn
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:45amJDF is correct. Pepper spray no more harmful than
Report Post »Waterboarding. Effects wear off within a few minutes
Yet we are vilified for WB. And everyone uses PS.
Hypocrites. WB caught OBL.
human011001
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:03amGood post DH I agree. I hope when all of you have something to protest peacefully that you don’t get pepper sprayed, or beat with clubs. I have no love for these protesters, but I have no love for the arm of big brother( cops, firefighters, teachers, ect.) .
Report Post »Dudley Do-Right
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:23amWhen the protesters locked arms they went from being passive resisters to aggresive resisters. How is a police officer supposed to remove several people when they interlock their arms? If these people had not interlocked their arms, the officers would have removed them passively and no further action would have been required. But when a subject is resisting a lawful order by a law enforcement official they are taught to use a Use of Force Continuum. The keyword here is “resisting” and the continuum requires they only use a level of force one step above the force their subjects are using. It’s my opinion that if the officers had simply tried to pull these resisters apart, a melee would have resulted with injuries on both sides. They made the right call in my judgment.
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:33amLOLreally, I don’t know which is worse, that you’ll get it one day when it may be too late, or that you’ll likely never get it.
And yes, those sitting people created quite a “barrier” for the cops progress. I guess I can understand that when looking at the portly cop, who probably got nicknamed Lumpy in school. Most people wanting to get by would just step between or over them.
It makes no difference if the gestapo cop warned them 479 times to move, the cops’ actions have to be measure and comensurate with the threat.
Sheesh, some of your are really dense. We’re screwed in this country when so many voters are as dense as you.
Report Post »Hemispheres
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:03amDirty Harry, when the police tell them repeatedly to move and clear out and can see that the previous instructions to remove the tents were ignored, the protestors have already made it clear that they intend to continue to resist. There are legal and illegal ways by which to protest. Comply with law enforcement or be forcibly removed. Simple concept. Pepper spray is an excellent way for the police to take control of the situation (as is using a tazer) without causing bodily harm. Remember, the police are in a far more precarious situation in an instance like this than are the protestors. As an aside, resorting to name calling hurts your argument.
Report Post »Dudley Do-Right
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:00pmThere are two m’s in commensurate, you genius!
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:59pmI’d be interested to see the vid of the “warnings” or “orders.”
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:20pmDUDLEY DO-RIGHT, there are two s’s in “aggressive,” genius.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 4:34pmPepper spray is an effective tool to reduce people’s ability to resist. The police would likely have done a lot more physical damage to the protestors trying to break them up than they did after using pepper spray then detaining them. We only have a small bit of what happened available, that is what protestors like these do, they show the part where the police use force rather than what led up to the situation. It is a very common tactic and is one of the reasons why most police now record their own actions, but typically those are only available to the agency and courts during investigation. If you don’t think that, than you are either mislead, or you are trying to deceive others.
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:14amThis is simply, New World Order Training in progress. If you visit prisonplanet.com they have been talking about this for years. It’s nothing new. Wait till the food riots happen..
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:29amyep
Report Post »this is the NWO. look at the police… light blue uniform? little hat on their head… “howdy maam, can i help ya cross the road?” … yeah… nope.. these people are swat and they are trained to kill Americans.
tifosa
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:04pmThis would never stand. Americans would rise up and object…oh yeh, they already have a well-trained cheering squad (see above and the next ten pages.)
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:14amI’ll bet these OWS were never spanked for disobedience when they were little children and were allowed to run wild in stores, restaurants, and other peoples homes and whined their parents into exhaustion to get their own way. (I had lots of comtemporaries I had to stop associating with when they had children because they were raising brats). This is a hell of a way and time to learn to follow the rules. Don’t want to follow the rules? Buy your own island and make your own rules. Want to change the system? Work within it to change it. They seem to have absolutely NO concept of problem solving for “college” students.
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:25amWhat do you expect from leftist professors at all of the univertsities, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, etc.?
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:14amThose poor depraved…I mean…deprived students! How will they ever find that extra $500 to pay for the tuition increase, the cause for all this trouble?…oh wait… what is that in all your hands, there? Are those the new $500 iPhones and digital cams? Hmmm… how are they ever gonna find that money. Maybe if they pull out their iPads and post to their facebook friends, they might have ideas for them. Oh the misery of the downtrodden… I hope they have enough spare change to stop off at Starbucks after they clean the pepperspray out of the eyes.
Report Post »Scottsman
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:30amGood points Wyatt… and that would be a $5.00 cup of coffee at Starbucks, instead of the $1.19 cup at 7-11 that costs 22 cents to make for yourself at home. But since a gay/lesbian/bisex/transgender with a pierced face made the coffee, they pay $5. Those id!0ts are a lost cause and should have to pay the police for a new can a pepper spray and complementary grande latte for using up the police’s time.
Report Post »The Hungarian
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:07amNot sure, but I think there might be a word missing from this sentence: “UC Davis officials had said the group may occupy the quad for as long as it wants, but could set up camp.”
Report Post »…just going off of context clues, that’s all.
On The Bayou
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:05amCalifornia is a Liberal State that is going into bankruptcy. It has been run by Liberals for the past thirty years and their policies do not work. Just as Detroit, Chicago, New York City, will follow. They have the same policies that Greece had. Ohio has just voted themselves into the same boat and Wisconsin cannot recognize from the smoke in their union eyes, that Scott Walker is trying to save their state from bankruptcy. Oh well.
Report Post »mr molotov cocktail
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:04pmredstates take more in dollars then they put in…..you are talking about socialism dollar for dollar should be paid to the states…screw you nitwit redstaters get bent
yes redstates take more in federal dollars then you put in
redstates are the welfare queens the whole lot of you should have your funding cut off… us westcoasters are so tired of you redstate ding-bats we should dollar for dollar should go to states..screw you teabaggers http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html
Report Post »His_Way
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:52amYes, Oh California where have you gone? I am so sad to watch this state, with the Guv Moonbeam, just sliding further into a liberal hellhole at such a frigtening pace.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:04amThank you to the all the Police that protect us!
We are the 99.9999999% of the population that support law enforcement and law! The .0000001% of the population who don’t live buy the rules must be treated as criminals.
I bet if I drove my F-250 in the middle of UC Davis with a camper on the hitch, set up my generator, empty my waste tank on the grass, opened a beer, field dressed a nice big buck on the talegate and fired up my grill to bbq my deer, would be ticketed and asked to leave.
If I didn’t move a tow truck, paddy wagon and campus police would be there in less than an hour to haul me out!
Doesn’t quite seem fair!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:16amBut, it is the law and that’s is how I should expect to be treated….I broke the law!
Report Post »ScienceIsNotEvil
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:52amThen I assume you fully support NY anti-gun laws? After all you do support the law in an unquestioning fashion.
Report Post »MitchRappInCharge
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:29amIn regards to the NYC anit-guns law. I will abide by the law. That doesn’t mean I have to support the law.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:53amGood one…thank you for the laugh….Montana humor and you are a New Yorker…amazing.
Report Post »RaidersImperium
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:43amSo is it a sling blade or Keiserblade…and why the mustard on the biscuits? mmmm-hmm
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 4:53pmNa…used to live in New York…lost my job there..had to move in 2009 to keep working. In 2009 I was a Vice President for a major building products company in NYC. We know what happened to the building products industry!
So, I moved a red state just below the Mason / Dixon, low taxes and we are free to carry handguns! Just got in from hunting.
Oh, by the way…we don’t put up with loafers trashing our public property here…so keep the loafers up north!
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:02ami makes me happy to see that the police ARE NO LONGER GOING TO LET THE PUBLIC just act how ever they want…. WE ARE A FREE NATION… THAT DOES NOT MEAN YOU CAN INTURRUPT OTHERS FREEDOM, SO THAT YOU CAN MAKE A POINT… the disruption of our major cities and universities and roads HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH…. AND PEPPER SPRAY SHOULD BE USED TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF AREAS THAT THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED…. AND NO POLICE GET CUT BY BROKEN GLASS
Report Post »jadedinkc
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:02am“It was really scary” said student Alihbob. Welcome to the real world cry baby!
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:08am“It looked like Anarchy”…..well, not really. Anarchy is when you don’t prosecute for rape or death and everyone is on their own, and THERE IS NO police. That’s what they want, I say give it to them. Put a fence all around the groups, don’t let anyone in or out and let them have their little anarchy experiment.
Report Post »kinnick1
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:59amCheers to the Police! Cops need to protect themselves and their families. They should give ONE warning and then do whatever they need to to gain control of the situation.
Report Post »yancie
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:04amAmen!
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:22amHeil.
Report Post »Scottsman
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:22am@Dirty Harry. Go say “Heil” on HuffPo where they really are saying “Heil” to the socialists… dirt bag.
Report Post »joelack55
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:19amYeah ……They were under such extrem threat from student sitting.
Report Post »Scottsman
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:25am@JOELACK55, go to movie theater that closes at midnight and sit lock arms until 1 in the morning. See if the police don’t remove you and your sitting locked arms buddies.
Report Post »Scottsman
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:34amBetter yet JOE-SLACK, go lock lips with DIRTYHARRY in a gay bar until after closing time and see if the manager doesn’t have you thrown out by force… LOL!
Report Post »beebacksoon
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:55amYeah, we’ve already seen all this at the TEA party rallies, haven’t we? NOT!
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:14amOnly in the warp liberal media, progressive liberal’s mind and sprewed out of the lying “manchild’s” mouth!
The 99.9999999% of the United States sees the Tea Party as a law abiding group of concerned citizens!
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:53amPay attention girls, you can‘t walk up to people who’re being non-violent, and pepperspray them. There are real health risks associated with pepperspray and it’s not something to spray non-violent people with willy nilly. Try a fire hose, dummies.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:00amExcellent , I noticed it broke the crowd up nice and easy afterwards… lol, I love it.. They scream shame on you but what they are doing that is ok , right ?
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:02amChange your call sign to Dirty Harriet and pack in the 44 mag for a water pistol. They get what they deserve.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:09amI’ll bet you have one of those new pink guns.
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:21amLorian, I have plenty of guns, none in pink. Try to see the big picture, girls. It’s a knee-jerk reaction to always need to ifind a good guy and the bad guy. Sometimes they’re both in the wrong.
The OWS’ers are a bunch of filthy losers, but that fact does not justify a gestapo-ish overreaction by PD. When you ignore that, simply because you dislike the protesters (I dislike them, too), you invite overreaction by PD on yourself some day.
Our Bill of Rights has to be defended or we lose the very foundation upon which this once-great country was built. Allowing cops to abuse those rights, and violate the restrictions placed on them on the use of force, it is the slipperiest of slopes.
As your mom taught you when you were 5: Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Report Post »Romanticpoet
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:52amI have said this before:
Turn on the fire hoses! It is getting cooler/cold. Wet them down and see how long they will defy the laws of our country. They DO have First Amendment rights, but they DON’T have the rights to obstruct travel by foot, car, etc., or disobey commands of a police officer.
Maybe they can use a soapy foam (non toxic to the eyes for the crybabies) before the water?
Report Post »gpaw
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:20amdirtyharry is on the right track.these people were not a threat.should have been dealt with differently.I cen’t believe how most people on here deny rights they demand for themselves to others who disagree with them.wake up people!The NWO may someday be doing this to you!
Report Post »MitchRappInCharge
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:33amThese “people” were warned numerous times. They knew the pepper spray was coming. They “chose” to stay, lock-armed, and be sprayed. Simple as that.
Report Post »ned1235
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:07amActually dirty Harry you show your ignorance on the subject I am an emt and training to be a fire fighter and just so you know spraying them with a fire hose at the range they would have had to would have been more likely to kill someone then the pepper spray get your facts straight
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:41amNed, my son isn’t a wannabe fireman, he’s the real deal. I’m surprised that, whatever fire training you’ve had, hasn’t yet taught you that the nozzle is adjustable??? Otherwise, don’t you suppose that everytime a fire hose was pointed at a burning car, it’s occupant would bre killed?
Fire hoses have been used to disperse unruly crowds for decades. Get yourself a TV.
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 4:38pmWhat statistics are you reading? The threat posed to people’s health by pepper spray are way lower than blasting people with a fire-hose. Plus they always have medical personnel available in these situations when someone has an adverse reaction.
Would you rather have the police breaking wrists and twisting joints to get these people to break up and clear out?
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:52amWhat these people don`t realize is that the call to end these protest from the White House was put out earlier this week. Polls have shown that the mass majority in the USA or stongly against OWS. The problem with the poll numbers is that Obama and the Democrats own this movement. Obama has not once come out and denounce the violence from the protestors. The truth is Democrats will take a beating next year in the election and they running out of ideas to get support from their base. This movement has surely turned bad on them. JZS you can do like Allen Colmes and try to spin this in a positive light. OWS is truely the 1 %.
Report Post »Just_Bubba
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:05amBut they are as American as apple pie…sure they are. They have done more damage to the people that backed them than we could have ever done by showing their voting records. The same puke politicians who backed them are nothing but crickets in the crowd of sheeple now. These pukes are an accurate depiction of the liberal progressive platform and I hope they continue to advocate for the progressive “movement”. You couldn’t ask for better poster children to take into the next election. Maybe they should revisit history and realize that the moral majority was silent prior to the protests in 68. We voted them out in 68 and again in 72 based on middle America’s aversion to the tail wagging the dog. Keep it up OWS, we can sure use you.
Report Post »endgamer
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:16amThere will be an EVENT that will have Obama call off the election.. Mark my words. This is all planned!
Report Post »On The Bayou
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:37amEndgamer, Van Jones tells us it`s called “ BOTTOM UP TOP DOWN INSIDE OUT ” and he wispers it to his followers. Van Jones is a Communist as is Vallerie Jarret, Who said she was Very Excited about Van Jones and that “ THEY ” have been watching Van since he was in Oakland. The White House knows who and what Van Jones is and they have no problem with him. Van Jones dream is Communism. Will they be able to pull off the Bottom Up Top Down part of their plan, we should all be praying not. Should the people of this country be concerned that they might, I thinks so.
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:51amIt’s hard to find the good guy here. I despise the OWS doofi, but this police action is also illustrative of the degradation of society.
Report Post »Czarthur
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:58amYou are kidding right?!
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:59amDirty Harry, have you been using your 44 mag as a pipe? America’s become way too soft. They need some head smack’en.
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:02amYeah ok harry, so what do YOU propose a sit down and a debate ?
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:06amsee they cannot use fire hoses, cause then the LIBRETARD media would relate them to the civil rights movement…. but i say waht the cops did was right…. we have seen over the past 2 months, THAT WHEN THESE PROTESTS START TO GET VIOLENT, POLICE ARE INJURED ALSO…. so is the police have a tool that can remove people peacefully, THEN THEY SHOULD USE IT…. and every person tehre KNEW THEY WEER GOING TO GET IT, IF THEY JUST SAT ON THEIR ARSE AND DID NOTHING…. SO I BELIEVE THIS SHOWS THE DEGENERATION OF SOCIATAL VALUES… THAT WE NO LONGER LISTEN TO AUTHORITY, NO LONGER CLEAN OURSELVES, NO LONGER WORK, AND DEMAND OTHERS MONEy, and we are willing to F UP the whole system to get it…… people with this attude DO NOT DESERVE TO BE TREATED LIKE 4TH GRADERS…. THEY NEED TO BE TREATED LIKE THE CRIMINALS THAT TEHIR ACTIONS ARE. there are peacefull ways to protest and demand… as shown by the TEA PARTY… so to say this is the fault of the cops IS DUMB. if you dotn listen to cops you get arrested….
Report Post »Cavetroll
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:51amAbout time!! Now if they would just treat these pieces of human excrement the way they think they are treated! You know, like a couple of rifle butts to the melon and if that doe not wake them up, drop them in downtown Darfur for austerity sake!
Report Post »Czarthur
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:50amYes … shame on these ungrateful, ignorant and shiftless commie terrorists who call themselves “protestors”. God bless law enforcement for maintaining the good order of the community and protecting the law abiding citizens of this nation from the lawless, clueless, ingrates who allow themselves to be manipulated by forces who are only interested in their own agrandizement and power. You pitiful, pitiful fools.
Report Post »smackdown33
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:50amFirst shower they’ve had in weeks.
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:37amGood One!!!
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:50amhow many TEA PARTY rallies did this happend to?TEA rallies were clean orderly people. to comfare these smelly hippies to TEA people os beyond absurd. no demorat has backed from them.yet these same demorats were bad mouthing TEA rallies. hmmmmmmm……..makes one wonder
Report Post »ScottyK7
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:29amWhen we had the Tea Party rally here in Oklahoma City, I took my wife and kids to it. As we were walking to the event, we walked past two Oklahoma Highway Patrol officers who were stationed on the outside of the crowd. The expressions and body language indicated they were relaxed, and enjoying the event. Our little boys were happy to see them, and the officers were all smiles and they waved back. All good day was had by all, and didn’t see any of these loon counter protesters there.
Now compare it to these OWS events!
Report Post »notreally
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:49amThese are people who think that they have a right to break the law and then expect sympathy from those of us who don’t break the law. But they can’t help themselves. Their animal instincts are uncontrollable:
-10/28/10 NBC news: University of California at Davis and Harvard University find “Liberal Gene” as partial answer as to why liberals think the way they do.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:05amMakes sense.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:13amshooting unarmed people. classic.
yes follow the “law”, like MF global who just ripped off hundreds of millions from investors…
let’s see, they can steal millions, or even billions, and goto jail for 2 years.
you, a non-elite citizen, can steal 40,000, feel guilty, give it back, and be put in jail for 40 years.
fair is fair huh… follow the law you say… exactly.. tell that to the judges who keep voting unconstitutionally, tell that to the administrations who keep bypassing “The People” exactly like a dictatorship, tell that to the “Super Committee” who is technically an Oligarchy…
The admission and use of a “Super Committee” is tyranny in and of itself. FFS people… are we Americans or not. it is our Right and Duty to overthrow this government when ruled by tyranny. we have our rights violated every single day. everyday they bypass congress (The People)… every single day. what’s the point of paying congress anymore? they won’t even stand up for themselves, the constitution or The People they are swore an oath to protect.
Report Post »A Conservatarian
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:24pmMy mother just switched from being liberal to conservative. Thank you for calling her an animal.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:44amFinally they are protesting against tuition hikes. That is where they should have been all along, and at the DC captial and the White House.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:56amThe best protest for these kids would be refusing to pay and enrolling elsewhere.
Report Post »MittenGal
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:48pmI don’t have a problem with these protesters camping out on college campuses. Progressive anti American professors have been grooming these Anarchists for decades all the while, collecting huge pensions/wages of the backs of students, parents and taxpayers. Reap what you sow academia, reap what you sow.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:41amWhen your stupid you gotta be tough…
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:38amThe Orkin man has nothing on him.
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