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Occupy Wall Street: Police brutality, media blackout
- sp332 15y agoOverall, the NYPD is pretty respectable. I just wish the 36,000 of them wouldn't cover for the few. OK time for links. Here's the best video of the women being pepper sprayed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6m_w7K8XM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6m_w7K8XM You can see he accidentally gets a fellow officer in the eye. One of those women tells her story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/nyregion/videos-show-police-using-pepper-spray-at-protest.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/nyregion/videos-show-poli... Here's the NYPD's response to the protest so far, which seems pretty low-key. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/nyregion/wall-street-demonstrations-test-police-trained-for-bigger-threats.html?_r=1 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/nyregion/wall-street-demo...