NYPD uses violence against Free Tibet protestors at UN

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Run time: 07:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7NUNwq2MGc   Posted on YouTube: March 17, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 27, 2008 By DU Member: Subdivisions Views on DU: 523

 
I did an advanced DU search of the Political Videos archive in an effort to ensure this would now be a duplicate post. I did not find this video previously posted so I offer it now for your consideration.

I'm going to watch it a couple more times in an effort to determine just who the instigators are here? At first it looks like people walking from where they parked to the protest site in front of the UN and suddenly the police begin harrassing them and blocking the sidewalk with police vehicles.

Regardless, you are witnessing the police state in action.

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. NY is not a police state. We do live according to rules and the citizens

want them enforced. I have never gotten into a problem demonstrating w/police - we kept within our permit. If you don't, suffer the consequences.

[Webster Green]

2. Bullshit!

Remember the Repuke convention, where NY Police rounded up protesters and kept them caged on some stinking pier? They were arresting not only protesters, but anyone unlucky enough to be caught in their plastic fencing that they used to corral people.

it's a fucking police state, and New York cops are some of the worst!

[JDPriestly]

3. What rules were not being followed?

I could not tell from watching that video why the police were so brutal to those people. Please explain.

[selador]

4. there is no way you can tell

based on this video, what exactly was going on.

iow, it's the perfect example of something that people who have a preconceived bias ( NYC is a police state) can use to support their preconceptions.

i have NO idea whether or not force was justified based on that video, and neither do you.

[sasquatch]

5. I love all of the police apologist posting in this thread

It's like I'm reading "Jews for Hitler" type non-sense.

[selador]

6. the fact is

nobody can watch this video and know whether excessive force was used or not.

simply put, there's not enough "there" there.

those , otoh, with preconceived bias - will see what they want to see.

what i saw was some jerky footage

[sasquatch]

7. I didn't see anything in that video that suggest the cops were just in the treatment of the people

[JDPriestly]

8. There was a lot of force, but was it "excessive"?

We can't see whether someone attacked the police. The video is not complete and is not clear. I'm not apologizing for the police. The facts are simply not clear in this video.