[lbo-talk] NYPD and Zuccotti

[Joseph Catron]

I'm with the cops on some of these. When your chosen protest is a public
encampment in public space, you run the risk of having to deal with the
actual public. And it is in no sense the proper duty of the NYPD to decide
who does and does not attend it, what they do there (within obvious
limits), etc. These whiners, who are bellyaching to the media that police
are acting as if theirs is an unpermitted gathering and they actually don't
have a legal basis for exclusive use of the park, need a kick in the pants
an an explanation of what an "occupation" actually is.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:54 AM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:

“He’s got a right to express himself, you’ve got a right to express
> yourself,” I heard three cops repeat in recent days, using nearly identical
> language, when asked to intervene with troublemakers inside the park,
> including a clearly disturbed man screaming and singing wildly at 3 a.m.
> for the second straight night.

...


> “A lot of you people smell,” a waggish cop shot back later after an
> occupier asked if he might be able to help find more appropriate
> accommodations for a particularly pungent and out-of-sorts homeless man.
>

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