Who gave the orders to attack peaceful protesters?

[Hutzpa]

this is the question the media should be asking.

Why were peaceful protesters targeted with teargas canister when there were no
evidence of violence from the protesters?

I'm not banking on M$M to pursue this line of questioning, far from it, but it
there is always a place to start.




:grr: :grr: :grr:

[gratuitous]

1. The media should indeed be asking that pertinent question

The answer, of course, is that it just . . . happened. Nobody really ordered the violence. It was a mass psychosis that infected the cops, incensed as they were over the lawlessness before their eyes, that caused them to all snap at once. You can't really blame anyone, or hold anyone accountable. And besides, it was just a bunch of lazy, smelly hippies who got their heads busted, so what's the big deal?

And the intrepid reporter who actually asks the question will hear this bullshit answer, and nod earnestly while writing it all down in his or her notes.

[coalition_unwilling]

11. I'm glad we never did get any type of 'tort reform'. There's nothing

like the discovery phase of a civil lawsuit to bring the vermin out into the sunlight.

If the Iraq Vet dies, the ensuing lawsuit should bankrupt Oakland and Alameda County.

[a simple pattern]

12. It also caused them to all show up at once

even if from different cities and precincts, as though coordinated by some kind of agency

[Chipper Chat]

2. 6 months ago our US media was praising the protestors in Egypt

and other countries who were valiantly "crying out for freedom." I remember Anderson Cooper and John King "feeling for them" in their righteous outcry against opression. NOW - in the good ol' USofA our own oppressed cannot get the same respect. What a load of shit.

[Hutzpa]

6. Not to mention if it was another country being oppressed

by it's police force, there would have been an outrage.

America is supposed to be a beacon of hope to the rest of the world, if
we can't provide protection to it own citizens how else should we expect
rogue government to listen to us? Doesn't that defeats our purpose?

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. There was a tweet that said

Mayor Quan ordered the assault to occur while she was gone.

[avaistheone1]

9. Yes.

Mayor Quan sucks.

[Hutzpa]

14. Action such as hers put a lot of pressure on Obama

whats baffling is democrats acting worse than republicans.

[lpbk2713]

4. Limbaugh?

After all, they're just human debris ... according to him.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. The M$M is owned by the same people that want to extinguish these protests

Don't expect anything out of our media.

[shraby]

7. Apparently the chief of the police there resigned a couple

of weeks ago because he didn't want to be doing what was asked of him, so I would venture to guess that whoever took his place is the culprit.

[Uncle Joe]

8. If that's the case I wonder who pressured the previous police chief to

either crack down or resign?

[flamingdem]

10. Agree, and someone needs to step up - Mayor or city council nt

[EC]

13. Why aren't the pundits asking why they didn't

attack and arrest the tps with their weapons and I'm sure many of those rednecks were peeing on the trees too.

[itsallhappening]

15. Standard crowd dispersal tactics on a crowd that wouldn't disperse.

[Hutzpa]

16. Was the crowd being violent?

Did the protesters damage any Federal building that would have warranted this action?

In this instance standard dispersal tactics does not apply.