PANDEMONIUM - Amazing Video Of NYPD Charging Times Square Protesters With Police Horses

This is completely out of control.

Raw Story

When thousands of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched north to Times Square on Saturday, the New York Police Department was quick to respond with barricades, horses, and arrests.

Ryan Devereaux, a reporter with Democracy Now! who accompanied the march, described the police deployment of barricades and kettling nets and the subsequent escalation of tensions in a series of tweets. At 6:21 pm, he tweeted, apparently with reference to a police officer, “He then says, ‘It’s gonna get ugly,’ as he announces they will now be pushing the line back.”

A minute later, he added, “They’re using the horses to push us back. People scream, ‘You’re gonna kill somebody!’ ‘There’s no room!’ They’re right!” And shortly after that, “A horse just went down. Crowd is going wild. NYPD says anyone near barricade is going to jail. This is is inexcusable.”

A few hours later, Devereaux was able to expand on his account, noting, “I heard a NYPD whiteshirt announce by megaphone ‘That horse is gonna hurt’” and “That was after the horse had crossed the line where the barricade was, before it went to down. People were outraged and terrified.”

Protesters responded to the police actions by shouting: “Who are you protecting?”

“Go fight crime!”

Comments

[DailyBail]

The value of bitcoin, an open-source cryptocurrency that we covered earlier in the year, is now approaching the $1 (60p) level.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/18/bottom-drops-out-of-bitcoin

[chunga]

Green shoots any time now. This is unreal. We'll be witness to some terrible events.

[Abi]

I don't understand why the police are grabbing people on the other side of the barricade. It looks like one grabs a woman by the hair and she starts screaming. The police themselves look a bit concerned for a few seconds as one man cries out to alert them, "Hey, its a woman." Obviously he does not agree with violence against women. Good on him. Why is violence ok if it is the police doing it? If someone attacks a police officer - really attacks a police officer, that is a crime. If someone attacks another person, that is a crime. Even if it is a police officer. Even if it is while he is on duty. There was no provocation for some of those police grabs across the barrier. It is hard to see, but it seems the police were provoking by grabbing people across the barrier. Why were they doing that?

[Thebes]

Every new video of Police Brutality brings a thousand members to our movement.

[DailyBail]

Bloomberg: First Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Wall St Protesters’ Tents

http://theintelhub.com/2011/10/18/bloomberg-first-amendment-doesn%E2%80%99t-apply-to-wall-st-protesters%E2%80%99-tents/

[equine abby]

Looks like it was dangerous for both people and horses.

[Chris]

These protestors are animals, I know I can't generalize the entire OWS, but this is disgusting. They're attacking the police, they fucking attacked a police horse...are you kidding me? They should've trampled them. I bet a third of these people are peta animal loving individuals and they fucking attacked a horse. Disgusting human beings, the nypd should've tear gassed them