While doctors and nurses have been trained to deal with Ebola and the proper way to dispose of protective gear, it seems the NYPD still have some learning to do. Seen below, two officers working in the vicinity of the…
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Eric Garner died on Thursday, July 17, following an encounter with New York Police officers. (Video still/WNBC via NY Daily News) NEW YORK (AP) — A chokehold used by a white police officer on a black New York City man…
Now that a NYPD officer has succeeded in using an illegal chokehold to choke a Staten Island man to death, other videos are surfacing online showing that although the chokehold is prohibited by the New York police department, it is…
Emotions are running high over the case of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died last week while under the restraint of NYPD officers. Social media activist have mobilized under the #JusticeForEricGarner hashtag. There is, however, another community online expressing…
He fought in Iraq, did tours in Afghanistan. But what got Sgt. Shamar Thomas mad as hell was the beatings peaceful civilians took from the New York Police, as they demonstrated their first amendment rights to peacefully assemble. “These are…
The protesters at Occupy Wall Street get their First Amendment rights violated on a regular basis. They’re rounded-up, thrown to the ground, punched and pepper sprayed like animals by the police. Yet today, the New York Police Department is planning…
You thought the New York Police Department was the only one attacking peaceful protesters for… protesting? Think again. The San Francisco Police Department has successfully added their interpretation of “excessive police action” to the historic movement that is Occupy Wall Street,…
There is absolutely no reason why any police officer should be allowed to intentionally cause harm to anyone, especially when an individual is in harm’s way, but is not putting said officer’s life in danger. So don’t even try to…
At 7AM tomorrow – Friday, the owners of Zuccotti Park, formerly “Liberty Plaza Park” – where the Occupy Wall Street movement has set up headquarters – plan to clean the park. This move, according to the occupiers, is just another effort…
Occupy Wall Street is not all about police brutality. There is another part of the movement you probably haven’t seen. Watch this amazing short film below by Alex Mallis, as he shows the inner workings of the bottom 99% and their…
Why is the New York Police Department beating up on the peaceful protesters at Occupy Wall Street. Well we’re sure there are a number of reasons, but when we came across this little piece of news, we had to do…
It’s a process called “Kettling” – leading the unsuspecting victim to an area where there’s no way out, and attacking. In this case, the NYPD demonstrated kettling on the protestors yesterday as over 700 people were arrested after police directed…