"later arresting occupiers and swabbing their mouths for DNA"

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.occupylosangeles.org/?q=node/2441

Occupy Los Angeles Under Seige

Submitted by OLA Web Team on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 2:30am

Tonight, hundreds of officers in riot gear marched along Main St and poured into the camp from the south exit of City Hall. Meanwhile, police with hazmat suits marched in on 1st Street, later arresting occupiers and swabbing their mouths for DNA. Some occupiers held candles, to which the LAPD responded with fire extinguishers. There were reports of beatings. According to the LAPD, 1400 officers made 200 arrests.

[SpiralHawk]

1. They are spraying fire extinguishers on the 99% and their candles?

That shit is way toxic.

The report of the DNA transgressions is just chilling. Is this truly so?

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. It's happened and been posted between General Assemblies, which is where

people would vote on things; I don't know how the web group is run and what their autonomy is. I'm looking forward to hearing more on this. It chilled me as well.

[malaise]

2. WTF???

Rec

[SpiralHawk]

3. Raid on ground timed with massive DDOS attack on Occupy LA web

From the Occupy LA blog:

"To make things more interesting, our web site was overloaded with a DDOS attack around midnight, but the offending IP's were blocked and service has returned to normal.

"Incidentally, this online attack coincided with the escalation of the LAPD's use of "non-lethal force".

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. I'm wondering what Anonymous is thinking about that.

:evilgrin:

[xchrom]

5. Recommend

[Huey P. Long]

6. Scientific dictatorship by an international corporate cartel. -eom

[redqueen]

7. Wtf?

How is that in any way legal? Unless that is standard procedure for all arrests, that's grounds for a lawsuit.

[LiberalEsto]

8. Do they have warrants to take DNA samples?

I strongly doubt it.

This is an OUTRAGE!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Tsiyu]

10. Welcome to America

They have been doing this for years; ask anyone who has been arrested in the last five years. The feds made this legal.

You have no rights in America.

[Freddie Stubbs]

19. Are warrants required to fingerprint someone under arrest?

[barbtries]

11. what's with the DNA swabbing?

gawd DAMN i hate what our country's coming to! yeah for the protesters and the occupiers and the 99% !!! we must prevail.

[SpiralHawk]

12. "All your DNA are belong to us." - 1%

[defendandprotect]

18. You have a right to free assembly ... but not DNA privacy -- ?????

Lawsuits, anyone?

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. 1-877-ASK-LAPD (1-877-275-5273)

[Fire Walk With Me]

14. Imperative KICK

[Eyerish]

15. K&R

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Kick, don't know if it's true but if it is...

[defendandprotect]

17. This BRUTAL police treatment of protesters is a picture of capitalism and how it holds power -- !!

Capitalism is fascism and this police brutality makes it ever clearer -- !!