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Police Brutality ... Occupy Cal 11/9/11

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Peter Burgess

Police Brutality ... Occupy Cal 11/9/11

Amy McLeod - 2:15 PM (edited) - Public

Slightly edited, to provide references to just some of the many major news organisations that are regurgitating the phrase 'nudging with batons'. I don't know about you, but nudging conjures up an almost playful image doesn't it, something you do with your sibiling when teasing them.

Whereas the correct phrase to use here would be violently striking, with a good chance of damaging ribs and internal organs.

Journalists you should be ashamed of yourself's for just regurgitating this crap, you should hang up your reporters hat and quit in shame if this is all you're going to do as a reporter.

Amy McLeod originally shared this post:

So, I have been having a look through all the mainstream news organisations that even mention this.

Curiously they all have one thing in common, they all mention arrests of students for 'resisting' and they all use the exact line 'nudging students with batons'*(1)

I have some from many Great American Universities circling me, is this 'Nudging' ? You be the judge.

Also why do the campus police even have riot gear at all? Who bought this for them? Why are University administrators being allowed to get away with employing these Stormtrooper morons?

This is Berkley, this isn't a crowd of brain dead jocks upset that their favourite pedophile protector has been fired and then seemingly allowed to vandalize and riot.

These are among the best and the brightest, these are the future, you cannot beat the future with force, you cannot beat an idea into submission.

Citizens outnumber the police many fold, this is why Police have to uphold the law with the consent of the people, police officers cannot enforce the law without the consent of the people, and if they continue to follow dumb orders like this and completely lose the consent of the people they are going to get hurt, you only need to look at what happened to the security people who started beating someone in front of a crowd of thousands to understand what happens when police forget what their job actually is.

So someone better get a grip here, some people need to be fired over this if they think this is any reasonable way to deal with peaceful protest.

*(1) Reference.. Three News stories at random from the Major organisations. nudging ..nudging...nudging ..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/uc-berkeley-students-try-to-set-up-occupy-camp-on-campus-as-police-move-to-clear-tents/2011/11/10/gIQAXQR87M_story.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57322395/cops-arrest-dozens-of-occupy-cal-protesters/

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/occupy-berkeley.html

Occupy Cal 11/9/11