Police Use Bulldozers To Break Up Occupy Richmond

[Hissyspit]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/31/police-use-bulldozers-to-break-up-occupy-richmond/

Police use bulldozers to break up Occupy Richmond

By David Edwards
Monday, October 31, 2011



Virginia State Police brought in bulldozers at about 1 a.m. Monday morning to clear out an encampment of Occupy Richmond protesters.

At least 15 protesters who choose not to leave Kanawha Plaza after a 45 minute warning were arrested, according to Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Demonstrators had been occupying the plaza since Oct. 15. Democratic Mayor Dwight C. Jones visited the site Thursday to warn protesters they were breaking a city ordinance that forbids camping on public property.

“We applied for permits from city council but, you know, they didn’t accept or decline us getting a permit,” one activist explained to WTVR. “At least them declining it would give us an idea what was to come, but we didn’t get anything. So we started occupying with high hopes and unfortunately this is what it came down to.”

VIDEO AT LINK

[cyberpj]

1. See the 'PERMIT' posted on Daily Kos. nt

[sakabatou]

4. Where exactly?

I would like an exact link.

[abq e streeter]

11. I'm assuming this is what was being referred to:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/30/1031592/-Were-not-camping,-and-this-is-our-PERMIT?via=siderecent

[cyberpj]

13. That's it. thanks for posting it. I just had time to read a bit and then logged off after posting.

I guess I thought that item was on Kos' home page today.
Tx again. :hi:

[sakabatou]

2. Fucking bulldozers?!

[ohheckyeah]

3. Not too surprising

given the governor is Bob McDonnell.

Makes me so proud of my state.....NOT.

[Shagbark Hickory]

5. LOL. I just have to laugh.

That is all.

They needed bulldozers to break it up. That speaks volumes about their incompetence.

[LoZoccolo]

6. "The scoops are on their way."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhfSPvp252M#t=01m40s

[slackmaster]

7. I believe that's technically a skiploader

The scene reminds me of the riot-control technique used in Soylent Green.

[arcane1]

8. This sucks, but fortunately there IS a work-around

They can occupy the space for as long as they wish, and go home when it's time for bed. Sure, it won't be 24-hours a day, but at least during waking hours the space will be full of people.

[gratuitous]

9. "Then they fight you" part

This is what it's about. You can stand up to taunts of "Hippie!" You can take the negative reporting from condescending reporters. You can take the deliberately clueless commentary from folks who cna't be bothered to listen to you. Can you take the police brutality? If it hasn't come yet, it will. Can you take the bulldozers? If they haven't rumbled through, they will. Can you take the red-baiting, the commie-calling, the stool pigeons, the agents provocateurs, the denials that any of this is happening?

Because if you can take these reactionary tactics of the oppressives, you can win. What I'm saying is take it easy, but take it.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Of note: ERIC CANTOR'S DISTRICT.

Jes sayin' . . . .

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Bastards.