amazing news, after innocent iraq vet gets hurt by riot police, vet groups vow help

[Truthmatters]

Protests in Oakland on the Eve of Mehserle's Release - Frequencies - The Bay Citizen

OPD has had a horrible reputation for over reaching their powers

 

[Jarhead]

OK...I blew it up...

Yeah, it came from the cop...

Need more information before I crucify him.

But you guys dont.

Go for it.

 

[paulitician]

This is what happens when you train your police the same way you train your military. You end up with terrible incidents like this. We as a nation need to change how we train our police. It is shocking to see American police officers not stepping forward and help this man. They instead chose to fire grenades at the injured man and those trying to help. I don't see how anyone can justify that behavior. They should have helped the man. I blame their poor training for this incident. They were just following orders. And where have we heard that before? I feel for the man's family.

 

[Divine Wind]

Why were the police there? Why were police not at tea party rallies?

They were, but the Tea Party aka Old White People movement, aren't as rowdy due to age and infirmity.

 

[ba1614]

They should just occupy White House and Capitol Hill. Problem solved.

By far the best point i've heard during all this "occupation" stuff. I still don't see what they think they'll gain by "occupying" places like Oakland & Nashville. It seems like they're going to these places just to riot. The White House and Capitol Hill are where all the problems stem from. They should be there. Oakland & Nashville make no sense. Thanks for your great point.

They will move it to the WH next November.

 

[WatertheTree]

Marine, Navy, Army and Airforce Vets and Police Vow to Protect Innocent Protesters

Would love to see the chicken hawk police get their asses whipped by some vets... true partiots

I would love to see it too. It would be a riot donchythink? violence is what we crave

Wow, and all this time I thougt it was truth, justice, equality, and freedom.

 

[paulitician]

It's also pretty fucked up that there's a man down - seriously injured, and the Cops just stand there and look at him.

Not only that but they also fired grenades at the injured man and those trying to help. This is not how we want our police to behave. Our police have been militarized. It is their awful training. Not even one officer thought to step forward and help the poor guy. What does that say about their training? It really is very sad.

 

[Jarhead]

You can clearly see the cop throwing it. geebus

thats the point...you cant clearly see him throw it....you see his arm move in an underhand motion....or at least it looks like that...it could be anything....and the trajectory of the item would not have placed the explosion where it was.....

look at it with an "inquisitive" mind this time...and you will see what I mean.

I believe it was doctored...but I may be wrong.

There's no classic signs, at all, of it being a doctored video. None. So that fact that you "think" it is only adds to your history of clouded judgement regarding most things political.

You want the Cops to be right, so that OWS is wrong, so you THINK the video must be doctored, when in reality - there's 0 evidence whatsoever to give any rational person that indication.

It's also a pretty grandiose theory - someone brought cherry bombs because they pre-predicted the cops would throw tear gas after 28 days of protesting and somehow the same guy was the videographer who brilliantly altered the video with no signs at all that he had done so. Brilliance.

No. I see someone as innocent until proven guilty.
And for you to say it is absurd to think that a blogger would not doctor a video shows how immature your thinking is as it pertains to political bloggers...ON BOTH SIDES. And for you to assert that it is foolish to think that someone would carry cherry bombs to a protest to try to "stir things up" shows even greater levels of immaturity as it pertains to your thinking.
Now, I am by no means saying you are immatrue....I see you as the exact opposite.....but you have taken the video that was released by a blogger WITH AN AGENDA and right away deemed it as legit........
How did you feel about the ACORN videos? The same way?
Afterall, signs of it being "edited" did not come out until weeks later.......were you seeing those videos as "fact" or "set up"?

Curious....

 

[earlycuyler]

The vet is not dead hes in critical condition

War vet hurt in Occupy Oakland protest improving

27) 10:07 PDT OAKLAND --

An Iraq war veteran who was injured during the raucous Occupy Oakland protest Tuesday night was upgraded to fair condition this morning at Highland Hospital in Oakland, a nursing supervisor said.

 

[paulitician]

I guess he's not dead but this is still an awful incident.

 

[earlycuyler]

Oakland has notroriously bad cops

You are a notorious moron.

 

[earlycuyler]

Just because the retard was a veteran makes no difference.

He was breaking the law and if he got hurt it was his own fault.

btw Lee Harvey Oswald was a vet.

peaceful protest is protected by a certain document that starts with a C. you should read it

That lie was already dis proven in another thread with links from the OWS website. It was live blogged. Read it and you wont look so stupid.

 

[Leweman]

Oakland has notroriously bad cops

You are a notorious moron.

Oakland has notoriously bad citizens too.

 

[earlycuyler]

peaceful protest is protected by a certain document that starts with a C. you should read it

Obviously, the protest had turned violent and that's why the Police were called to break it up.

To ensure "Domestic Tranquility" is also part of the document that starts with a C.

Apparently, you are the one who has never read it.

Yeah. Just like those miner strikes in West Virginia magically turned "violent" and the railroad had send in their hired police to "break it up".

I don't advocate violence because of this, but I'd like to know why this situation was so bad that a cop had to put an American in critical condition.

As pointed out in the other thread, no evidence exist that a cop did.

 

[Avatar4321]

The vet is not dead hes in critical condition

TM is right... I wanted to say that because it's so rare that I can honestly do that.

 

[Truthmatters]

You have plenty of opportunity but are so partisan you deny facts to claim the opposition is wrong