If you watched the bridge event (arrests), please tell me what you think of this story on it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

RT have been a favorite of mine but this caught me by surprise. What do you think?

http://rt.com/news/brooklyn-bridge-occupy-wallstreet-859/

[NYC_SKP]

1. Please watch this video in LBN showing police leading protesters onto traffic lanes...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x620702

Looks like a trap.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Thanks for the link. Please make this an OP in GD!

[tabatha]

2. I did not see any violence.

I thought the arrests appeared to be civilized. However, there should not have been any arrests.

[pnorman]

3. I was amazed at the non-violent crowd discipline displayed!

Here's something spotted on DU

[aquart]

5. Al Baker needs to be spanked.

[Smarmie Doofus]

11. That's intriguing. Link to original? Thanks. nt

[Eric J in MN]

4. If the cops hadn't blocked the marchers,

...they probably would have been over the bridge and into their destination of Brooklyn Bridge Park in less than an hour.

By blocking the marchers on both sides, cops created a huge ordeal.

Some marchers re still in jail. For supposed jaywalking.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Thanks, especially for the video. These were my conclusions as well.

I posted a Comment about how all of the negative wording they used, were all really from the police...and I have yet to see my comment posted. In Soviet Russia, comment posts YOU! We'll see, hope they post it. A disappointment as their previous coverage has been positive.

Cheers.

[lob1]

8. This was a trap set up by the cops.

They're trying to break the spirit of the protestors, and I'm afraid it'll get a lot worse before it gets better.

[provis99]

9. and people on DU think propaganda isn't real in this country.

well, that article is proof.

[Kurovski]

10. Here's what folks on the bridge saw...

... many protesters said that they thought the police had tricked and trapped them, allowing them onto the bridge and even escorting them across, only to surround them in orange netting after hundreds of them had entered.

“The cops watched and did nothing, indeed, seemed to guide us onto the roadway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who was in the march but was not arrested...

Etan Ben-Ami, 56, a psychotherapist from Brooklyn who was up on the walkway, said that the police seemed to make a conscious decision to allow the protesters to claim the road. “They weren’t pushed back,” he said. “It seemed that they moved at the same time.”

Mr. Ben-Ami said he left the walkway and joined the crowd on the road. “It seemed completely permitted,” he said. “There wasn’t a single policeman saying ‘don’t do this’.”

He added: “We thought they were escorting us because they wanted us to be safe.” He left the bridge when he saw officers unrolling the nets as they prepared to make arrests...

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/

[Viva_La_Revolution]

13. until I see video backing up the Cop's story...

I'm gonna have to side with the protestors.

[Kurovski]

14. You always have been a visually-oriented sort 'o gal.

;)

[icymist]

12. Here is what I saw with this article:

Thousands of protesters who have been camping out near Wall Street have spilled out onto the roadway, causing the Brooklyn Bridge to be shut down.
We now know that the police divided the protesters during this march, encouraging some of them to march unto the roadway part of the bridge:
<snip>
George Basta, an official with New York Communities for Change, said that the organizers were encouraged by police to march on the street area of the Brooklyn Bridge, instead of the walkway, then subsequently arrested them for marching in traffic. Two lead organizers, Jonathan Westin and Pete Nagy, were penned in by police. Westin managed to exit the police pen, but Nagy is missing and presumed detained by police, Basta told HuffPost.
<un-snip>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/occupy-wall-street-protests-new-york_n_989221.html#28_brooklyn-bridge-shut-down-by-protests
It was the police that blocked off both sides of the bridge to deal with these 'snarlers of traffic'.
<snip>
The demonstration started by Wall Street and then protesters rallied toward the Brooklyn Bridge. When they got on the bridge, the police cordoned off both sides of the Brooklyn Bridge and started to move in on the protesters to make arrests for blocking traffic and disorderly conduct.
<un-snip>
This article suggests that violent erruptions sprang from this. I watched the live stream and found that the arrests were in an orderly fashion with very little struggle from the protesters. Here, look for yourself in the 'latest videos here:
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. Okay, they -did- post my comment. And they changed the story to reflect less violence/

violent words.

Would someone please send me a couple of screenshots of the old version? If you've read the story and again click the link, the original will still be in your cache. Just don't navigate away from it before you save the images. Thanks for any assistance.