Police scam: accuse a protester of trying to assault cop with his elbow

[Eric J in MN]

At the Republican Convention in NYC in 2004, protesters held up signs from the audience section.

A cop walked up behind a guy holding a sign, shoved him, and then charged him with attempted assault, on the grounds that his elbows moved backwards after he was shoved (which is an instinctive necessity to stop from falling down in that situation).

Yesterday, when protesters were walking in the Wall Street area, a cop walked up behind one of them and pulled the top of his right arm. The man gave him a look and the officer punched him in the head. The man, Felix Rivera-Pitre, got away.

"Police said the altercation occurred after the man tried to elbow the officer in the face."
http://news.yahoo.com/wall-street-protesters-energized-park-decision-071816457.html


You can watch video of the incident yesterday and see that the NYPD is trying to deceive the American people into believing that when a cop CAUSES someone's elbow to move towards the cop, it's attempted assault.

The second video on this page at 1:30 shows yesterday's incident:
http://gothamist.com/2011/10/14/hiv_positive_protester_says_cop_who.php

[John1956PA]

1. Video of "Bike Girl" being arrested at the 2009 G-20 Protest in Pittsburgh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13iUAQBQbpw

[Eric J in MN]

2. I found other video at YouTube

...which shows that at least two cops hit Bike Girl in the back with their clubs before she flipped out and threw her bike at one of them:

"The DA call what she did aggravated assault."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3KxaI8GHT4

Police clubbing someone bicycling at a protest isn't assault, but someone responding to that by throwing her bicycle is.

[John1956PA]

3. The police arrested Bike Girl rather forcefully after she hurled her bike at the officer.

Before she hurdled her bike, she received a cross-check to her back and was propelled rapidly forward, thereby having her neck forced backward. It could be argued that, after she hurled her bike, the police exerted excessive force in arresting her. The force included a cross-check to her face or neck (you can be the judge by viewing the video). Thereafter, she was dragged backward and then turned face-down to the pavement. The D. A. may have expounded on the "aggravated assault" charge in order to discourage her from filing suit in civil court. Eventually, Bike Girl was offered, and she accepted, Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) of her criminal charge. She avoided pleading guilty, spent ten months (I think) on probation, after which her arrest record was expunged. She indicated to reporters that she just wanted the matter to be over. If I would have been on the jury had the criminal case on the assault charge gone to trial, I think that I would have held out for an acquittal. Sure, the police officer whom she hurled her bike at was not the one who delivered the final, forceful cross-check to her back, but she did not know that at the time. I think that her reaction could be considered as one of self-defense. Others think that she lost her temper and knowingly assaulted the police officer.

[EFerrari]

4. Look at this sh!t:

@YourAnonNews Anonymous
by 48thave
In case you haven't seen this video, it's the most cut and dry case of #NYPD entrapment I've seen to date youtube.com/watch?v=7w44ti… #ows

http://twitter.com/#!/YourAnonNews/status/125564206878695424

Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w44titOkKE