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:camer...@gmail.com] 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 < ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> 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:351036 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
