Democracy Now! Producer Nicole Salazar Arrested

[cascadiance]

Run time: 00:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jreRSEQ_yg   Posted on YouTube: September 02, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 02, 2008 By DU Member: cascadiance Views on DU: 454

 
Here's the video Nicole Salazar shot before being pushed to the ground by police THUGS at the RNC.

[mikelgb]

1. thugs is too nice a term

DOMESTIC TERRORISTS is more apt

[JDPriestly]

2. The city in which this took place is going to pay big for this use of

excessive force. The people in that city need to fire their police chief right away. They cannot afford this kind of police abuse.

[phrigndumass]

3. I think I heard her yell "Press! Press!" a few times.

They're credentialed press reporters, ferchrissakes!

:puke:

[avaistheone1]

10. Yes, she was yelling "Press, press!"

[cascadiance]

11. She's also asking "Where are we supposed to go?" twice too!

When the police are telling people to "get out of here!"

These cops belong in PRISON!

[madura]

4. where ws this, whats going on?!!!!

is this in St. Paul, re: convention?

can someone please give me a summary, the title and clip here say Nothing.
I have not up to date with this, so if someone can please fill me in, I would very much appreciate it.

i havwen't been reading DU as much as usual lately and there is NOTHING on CNN about this...

[Ghost Dog]

5. Uff. To begin with, see Democracy Now! here

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/2/amy_goodman_two_democracy_now_producers

... and look back over the last two-three days of DU's LBN. I'm sure others will provide some specific links.

Then there is Indymedia and other independent media sites...

[cascadiance]

6. Sorry about lack of info...

Have already been a lot of other threads on this topic, and I incorrectly assumed others were following the story.

Yes, it is the scene of the original arrest of Nicole Salazar while she was covering demonstrations with another colleague of hers, and what lead Amy Goodman to come down to get them released and Amy Goodman's subsequent arrest.

BTW, here's a newer better quality video clip of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d9wmqO2Khw

[madura]

13. thank you. I didn't mean to sound snarky, if I sounded that way

i'm just so frazzled and worried about everything. I swear to goddess, if Obama doesn't make it, I'm moving to another planet. These thugs and the people that support this kind of action are not humans so I may as well move to real alien land and probably find more justice that on this blue dot. argh!!

[Pete2069]

7. Police and Storm Troopers

Their names fall within the category of Police State , Storm
Troopers and criminal attack force.  
Lets face it , we have no constitution , laws or democracy
anymore... 

Bush said when he stole office,,,  that it would be easy to
run this country if it was a dictatorship and that is what our
senate and House of Representatives has handed over to him in
a silver plater.

Bush also stated that our constitution was nothing but a G.D.
piece of paper and he could do as he please.  Now it isn't and
he is......

But isn't it sweet that a republican can use the word of God
in vain , cheat on their spouse, steal your tax money , lie
and commit treason , torture humans at their pleasure , had
children out of wedlock and commit numerous sex crimes ,
invade countries for the resources , create destruction to the
citizens of their our country and the world , without a peek
from their religious right wing followers.

Yet when Clinton told a lie , the whole d... country was/is in
a uproar...

Right wing republicans and their candidates home of the
criminals and hypocrites.

[fascisthunter]

8. these people are soft.... soft in the head

to order such an illegal action like this for partisan purposes is very reminiscent of how the Nazis acted when they were in power.

[Ghost Dog]

12. Even before they were in power.

If you read Mein Kampf, you'll see that the aggressive Brownshirt strategy was deliberately calculated to stir up frustration and anger in the general populace which was directed, first, against 'The Left', and later against such groups as Gypsies and Jews...

The Nazi Party then was able to present itself as the 'Authoritarian Solution' to the very same violence, intimidation and malfunctioning, disintegrating society they themselves had provoked.

[iamthebandfanman]

9. half of this country are either fascists

or fascist sympathizers(unknowingly in most cases).

either way, they are ALL guilty of the crimes.

I dont know why people think fascism died after ww2...
in reality it just dispersed quietly throughout the world...
first they tried to take south america, and were succesfull until late...
our worker brothers and sisters down south have started the revolution again...

they will be sorry they awoke the beast that is the red workers giant.
its gonna be hard tho now that fascism has sunk into the united states...
it was bad enough when Russia was the first super power to fall to the fascists ... later china did the same... and now its the united states.

well, we wont stand for it.

workers unite!

[sasquatch]

14. Asshole cops need to spend time in prison

[Beaverhausen]

15. Jesus christ. Is this my country?

[uppityperson]

16. Here is a clearer copy (I think) and link to post about wtf is happening

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d9wmqO2Khw

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=381147&mesg_id=381147

Direct link to statement by Amy Goodman about what was going on, about the arrests and treatment.
http://www.truthout.org/article/why-we-were-falsely-arrested

[PA Democrat]

17. The whole thing was chilling.

Amy Goodman asked a cop what he thought of the preemptive raids being done and he replied, "awesome." That is just frightening.