Protestor with 'dead cop' sign angers Occupy Grand Rapids crowd - pics and video

[Bozita]

Protestor with 'dead cop' sign angers Occupy Grand Rapids crowd
Published: Wednesday, November 02, 2011, 7:09 PM Updated: Thursday, November 03, 2011, 10:27 AM
By Garret Ellison | The Grand Rapids Press


GRAND RAPIDS — The mood of a special Occupy Grand Rapids march to protest police brutality in other cities changed dramatically Wednesday when the protestors collectively became aware of a young woman quietly holding a sign in their midst that read “The Only Good Cop Is A Dead Cop.”

“Only in America can one malcontenter come into a group and nullify what the whole thing is about,” complained Yank Yankovich, an 85-year-old veteran who followed the late afternoon march through downtown on his scooter.

“We just had a good man die around here, killed by some crackpots,” he said in reference to the Oct. 13 death of Walker Police Officer Trevor Slot, who was killed trying to stop a pair of bank robbers in Ottawa County. “Why are we letting this happen?”

What had been billed as a march in solidarity with Occupy Oakland — where a former U.S. Marine’s skull was fractured by a projectile fired by Oakland Police — turned sour as established members of the local group argued with the young woman about her controversial sign.

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[Brickbat]

1. Yank Yankovich. Awesome.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. What corporation, do you think, is paying for her time and effort?

But it could be she really is a misguided fool.

I hope they do an in-depth search into her background. I know the always-wrong-Right, and their corporate masters, crush dissent by infiltrating and planting someone within a demonstration in order to discredit a movement that threatens their stranglehold on power and their goal of subverting democracy.

[bemildred]

3. The cops work for the people, we need them on our side.

And they need us too, we have common interests.

[ZombieHorde]

4. I fully support people protesting the police, but advocating violence

is completely different.

[HappyMe]

5. That's just the kind of thing

that will turn people away from occupy.

[Drew Richards]

6. I'm willing to bet she is a tea party loon following the dictates from a talk radio smegma