[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

Yes, and everyone there was being moved out. The police were pushing them back to the doors by making a line and just telling people to move back to the doors. The people were moving.

Do you not find it very disturbing that an American citizen, who was there to livestream and not protest, was being pushed back by police from the front, and following those instructions by moving backwards, yet was grabbed from behind, thrown to the floor, aggressively restrained, and hauled off arrested?

Why was this passive, non-violent person picked out of the crowd? He was complying, right? What was he doing that required a policeman grabbing him - and nobody else - from behind and throwing him violently to the floor?

Would you like it if it happened to you? Do you think your rights give you freedom of the press? And freedom from excessive police force when you are complying with their commands?

Do you think the police have the right to command you to do things not enshrined in law? Can the police be violent goons? Thugs? Do citizens still have any rights, protections, or are the police departments indeed "Bloomberg's army", as he brags?

Glad the US government comes out to defend the peaceful protesters in the middle east from government violence.

It seems that more and more in the United States, citizens can only protest where and when the government decides to allow it.

thats YOUR big govt for you!!