Freedom - Aren't you losing it America?

[dave502d]

WTF is going on in hear?




http://www.current.tv/studio/media/1051113

[ClayZ]

1. Must see! Kick!

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[Oversea Visitor]

2. This is scary

Is this that bad now.
Can someone send it to their representative.

[rucky]

3. New York's Finest?

Here's a recent one:

Clip from SF Chronicle:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/06/MNUFNELSON.DTL

The Use of Force
Officer's use of force is excused - until a camera documents it
- Susan Sward, Bill Wallace and Elizabeth Fernandez, Chronicle Staff Writers
Monday, February 6, 2006



The San Francisco Police Department should have known that Anthony Nelson was one of its most violent officers long before he slammed his baton down on the arm of a war protester and cost the city $835,000.

It was right there in the records. In nearly three years policing city streets, Nelson had reported using force on suspects more than any other officer in that period.

His reports showed that he had resorted to his baton -- considered an officer's second-deadliest weapon, after a firearm -- far more than other officers.

As the reports piled up, he had appeared five times on the department's quarterly watch list of officers who use high levels of force.

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[MelissaB]

4. kick

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[LiberalAndProud]

5. If America's freedom dies, what do you think will happen

in the rest of the world?

powerful stuff, that.

[canichelouis]

6. Did ya'll see the Utah rave clip this summer?

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/230805utahrave.htm

[Twist_U_Up]

7. nice find,Ive seen more and more of these vids lately

our freedoms are slipping away

[Barad Simith]

8. this is a MUST SEE (nt)

[oscarmitre]

9. Is it systematic and indicative of an organised attack on

civil liberties or is it just business as usual?

Look if a cop calls in a "police in trouble/need assistance" then what will happen is that any available cop will get there to help. I could quite easily, if I wished, exercise some sort of individual prejudice and ride my bike (or my horse or my patrol car or whatever) into a situation and cause those whom I "disturbed" to be pretty upset. If I strode around grabbing at people's banners and tearing them up I could guarantee that they would be upset and probably would have a go at me. Then I could pull out my radio and ask for assistance. My colleagues would attend post-haste and in the emergency micro-climate quite a few people would be arrested. And you know, my colleagues would probably take a look at the outraged people and their behaviour and start interpreting their actions as warranting criminal charges. It would be a fit-up.

But it would not be indicative of an officially-sanctioned attack.

I don't know what happened here. I don't know if a cop who felt particularly cranky about the demo lost his senses and created the situation and then dragged his fellow cops in on the pretext of asking for urgent assistance. I do know that I doubt if this was an officially sanctioned event.