I saw that. I made a tinyurl for it here um Saturday or so. I am also not happy about the livestreamers who got hassled at gunpoint, not the way to treat journalists, Chicago, and yes citizen journalists do count.
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Eric Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > > Plus, they did a preemptive raid, claiming that the people arrested had > incendiary devices. The "incendiary devices"...welll it was a beer making > kit. Occupy Chicago documented it early on and posted the pics of what was > confiscated (unfortunately, I only know of a FB page, and FB doesn't seem > to > like this list for some reason. I did see the pics and as someone who has > done home brewing...it was a beer making kit. They were also claiming they > confiscated swords and shuriken... These guys were well known in the > protest community from what I have been reading and not the violent types > (aka they were not black bloc). "Coincidentally", 4 days earlier, these > guys were pulled over by cops and threatened and harassed. Here is the > video... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudIyxxAboA (video of the harassment) > > If I find an outside posting of the pics of the confiscated stuff, I will > post > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 4:13 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Pics from the NATO Protest > > > This reads as "we're protesting anything and everything that anyone has > ever > been upset about". > > ...and I'm not saying that the police always act right, but the Chicago > Trib > link that started this thread was primarily of peaceful protests. I saw a > few injuries oh unknown origin, and a protestor who got punched in the face > after hitting a police officer over the head. > > I guess I am not seeing the overwhelming police brutality angle. I am > definitely seeing the random "protest everything" angle. > > -Cameron > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Eric Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > NATO Summit... protesting the war in Afghanistan as well as other > > military actions taken by NATO, plus all the other occupy stuff like > > income inequality, healthcare, etc... There was a big protest in > > front of Boeing HQ today "Healthcare not Warfare"... It's a shame the > > FB links are not working right. A friend of mine got some really good > > pics of it...plus a priceless one of someone who got booted and just > > took the tire off and left it and the Denver boot at the curb hehehe > > > > Lots of police brutality going on...I have a ton of pic pof people > > that were injured in the protest by police. > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351039 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
