AlterNet Downtown

[arisbe]

"In a city the size of New York, where a few murders a day are commonplace, such minor vandalism can't possibly justify the millions of dollars spent to keep protestors at bay. And it is hard to imagine that some of the cops and top brass don't realize how ridiculous it is to use overwhelming presence and firepower on a bunch of scruffy, backpacked kids. The protesters weren't the type to instigate the mayhem that police had prepared themselves for.

"Ironically, the protesters and the NYPD may have both gotten something they wanted out of the protests – numbers."

Comments

[joffridus.livejournal.com]

Pretty soon they'll try to make gatherings for protest illegal across the board.

[dancing-gator.livejournal.com]

This is nothing short of scary.

[a1an.livejournal.com]

it's beginning to look like a police state