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[NYC 10.1.11, images via Robert Stolarik for The New York Times]

For those of you who haven't heard, late yesterday afternoon the New York City Police Department arrested more than 700 demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street protests on the Brooklyn Bridge. These protesters, exercising their constitutional right to peacefully assemble, were lead onto the bridge's roadway where they were then trapped and arrested. In a country that feels they have the right to invade others all in the name of democracy I am appalled that this is how the government and law enforcement officers of my city have decided to treat it's citizens.

Is this the American we live in?
Posted by A. at 10/02/2011

9 comments:

  1. Good intentions don't render you immune from the law.

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  3. I suppose after Giuliani cleaned up the rapists, murderers, and prostitutes, there's no longer anyone to arrest except political dissenters.

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  4. Thats madness


    -Mia xo
    http://naturezfinest.blogspot.com/

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  7. Don't do any thing against the law it will all turn bad on your self. Just listen to the police.

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  8. The beauty of are country is the right to freedom of speech. So protest your heart away peacefully.

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  9. thanks for sharing these pictures. Haven`t seen them on german TV.

    Best wihses from Berlin.

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