Police drag Occupy activists from Santorum event

[Playinghardball]

Police on Monday physically dragged several Occupy Tampa protesters from an event with Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum and cited them for trespassing.

One of the men had thrown glitter at the candidate as he was he was giving his closing remarks. WESH cameras caught a man in a suit wrapping his arms around the activist and forcing him towards the door.

“Stop the hate!” the protester shouted.

A police officer was seen dragging a second activist across the floor by the hand before another officer picked up the man’s legs.

Glenn Costa, Joseph Perry, Michael Fernandez and Rebecca Rubright were all cited for trespassing, but not arrested.

read more and watch the video at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/25/police-drag-occupy-activists-from-santorum-event/

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Terrible reporting job. What kind of 'event' was it? An open, campaign stop?

A 'pay to eat' type of thing? Would be nice to know, since I can't see how one can be trespassing in either of those two situtations unless they didn't pay the price of admission.

[unionworks]

2. santorum is a dirt bag

Occupy is right on the mark.

[pinboy3niner]

3. +100

Being arrested--legitimately or not--for protesting against him would be a badge of honor.

[Zorra]

4. One huge awesome thing that I love about Occupy is our universal rights consciousness.

All injustices and inequalities, bigotries and racisms, are the target of Occupy; we don't discriminate in our struggle against hate and injustice.

Banksters, racists, bigots - they're all going down.