The NYPD Threatens To Sue Occupy Wall Street Protesters
PHOTO - NYPD thug Anthony Bologna shows some love for certain protesters.
Here's some afternoon comedy courtesy of the NYPD:
"Deeply concerned" police sergeants are coming out swinging today against obnoxious Wall Street protesters, saying they plan to "pursue legal action" against demonstrators who injure any of its members.
Ed Mullins, president of the NYPD's Sergeant’s Benevolent Association, said his group plans to pursue legal claims against Occupy Wall Street protesters should they cause injury to any of its 5,000 members.
“In light of the growing violence attendant to the 'Occupy' movements across the country, particularly as evidenced by the recent events in Oakland, I am compelled to place these so-called 'occupiers' on notice that physical assaults on police officers will not be tolerated."
"I am deeply concerned that protesters will be emboldened by the recent rash of violent acts against police officers in other cities. New York’s police officers are working around the clock as the already overburdened economy in New York is being drained by 'occupiers' who intentionally and maliciously instigate needless and violent confrontations with the police."
Oct 29, 2011 at 9:29 PM
Reader Comments (28)
any other role is purely wishful thinking.
to serve and protect is actually a pledge for the tax collectors.
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-09-23/news/30219790_1_massive-ticket-fixing-scandal-cops-face-charges-grand-jury
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Sgt. Raymond Brickley, one of the early targets of the probe, was caught on a wiretap talking about fixing tickets, sources said. Brickley, assigned to the 42nd Precinct, is an official with the Sergeants Benevolent Association.
http://gothamist.com/2011/09/16/cops_facing_drug-profit_charges_as.php
Question:
How many donuts do you have to eat before you can legally undermine someone's constitutional rights and commit felonious assault and battery against someone engaged in lawful assembly?
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll
If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public’s radar was started by the Rudy Giuliani administration in New York City in 1998. It’s called the Paid Detail Unit and it allows the New York Stock Exchange and Wall Street corporations, including those repeatedly charged with crimes, to order up a flank of New York’s finest with the ease of dialing the deli for a pastrami on rye.
The corporations pay an average of $37 an hour (no medical, no pension benefit, no overtime pay) for a member of the NYPD, with gun, handcuffs and the ability to arrest. The officer is indemnified by the taxpayer, not the corporation.
New York City gets a 10 percent administrative fee on top of the $37 per hour paid to the police. The City’s 2011 budget called for $1,184,000 in Paid Detail fees, meaning private corporations were paying wages of $11.8 million to police participating in the Paid Detail Unit. The program has more than doubled in revenue to the city since 2002.
The taxpayer has paid for the training of the rent-a-cop, his uniform and gun, and will pick up the legal tab for lawsuits stemming from the police personnel following illegal instructions from its corporate master. Lawsuits have already sprung up from the program.
In any case breaking up a Peaceful Assembly is a direct and flagrant violation of the First Amendment.
I flashed back to the cartoon SUPER CHICKEN with the punch line directed at Fred Super Chickens side kick... every time Fred got hurt S,C., would look at Fred and say,"You knew the job was dangerous when you took it".
As a child growing up we were taught to respect cops, that goes both ways - if you do't respect us then HOW can we respect them? They are macing young women, they are punching peaceful protesters, they SHOOT your pets, they are insane. They dress as if they are in the middle of a war...pusses.
I KNOW this will bring more people out to protest...we will have our protest this Saturday in Dubuque...smash the FEDS.
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Nicely done.
Don't nail cops. Teach them the errors in their ways. Some of them are very fucked up. From the top, down. Then there are the fucked up cop wannabes like the dope who shot Scott Olson. This idiot shot a U.S. Marine who was defending his country against criminals and a corrupted justice department. I pity the fool.
99%
TOO BIG TO FAIL!!
Oct 27, 2011 at 3:40 PM | Jack
When a Cowared is backed into a corner, they recoil and lash out the only way they know how....Normal Democrat Shit, fuck everyone over, blame the other guy........Other guy help the protester up, claim Fame and call the MSM.
These OWS cops are such cowards, chickins, low-life, Squm of Earth, Bastards of Humanity........Little Bastards that neaver got out of 4th grade. john, I need your bar of Irish Spring.
Shove it up thAre ASS, till bubbles come out of their mouth n nose, Please.........? I say a Prayer when a Anmial is run over on the Hiway, Please God let it be a male so no babys die of hunger.
If I saw the cop that Shot Scott in the face laying down in the street, I would say a Prayer for Scott........if I saw his Guts Squished out laying on the street after a Marine got evan for what he did to Scott, I would say a Prayer for the Marine for making the score Evan.........?
I would also ask God to take good care of the cops family................
How many times has NYC police force been turned inside out in the past? Anyone remember how many cops lost their jobs over Frank Lucas, This time however they will be rewarded with pensions and lucrative security jobs on Wall Street.
Al Queda awarded a SILVER CRESCENT "in absentia" to Tony Baloney of the NYPD for his repression of FEMALES
in the finest tradition of Taliban "Morality Police".
Al Queda also praised the PAID SHILLS who are flooding comment sections with derision of OWS and FREEDOM.
Al Queda welcomed these LACKEYS into the WAR on FREEDOM.
The NYPD, having refused to acknowledge the fraud that is 911 and caused so much damage to them and especially the New York fire department during that criminal episode, now morphs into Pinkerton thugs who violate and undermine the constitution and commit acts of thuggery and felony assault against people simply trying to constitutionally protest endemic fraud and theft.
The city of New York's chief executive himself is a Wall Street thief whose entire business model (starting with the Bloomberg terminal) was and is a fraud designed to selectively provide insider trading information to those, especially corporations, hedge funds and other thieves, who pay his fee.
Despicable.
If they are spending money on this kind of frivolous stuff I would fire the police chief and his cronies for misappropriation of funds.
Acts of police behaving illegally, with shootings, Tasers, and unwarranted violence now appear almost daily. Rarely are these offenses punished. Most often "an investigation" is claimed, but soon forgotten.
In addition, the USA, with 5% of the world population, has 25% of all of the prisoners in the world. That means the USA has the most people in prison of any nation in history. Even by percentage of residents incarcerated, not just sheer numbers. USA is # 1 Does any of that sound like a free country?
As Dwight D. Eisenhower said about communism, "It's like slicing sausage. First they out off a small slice. That isn't worth fighting over. Then they take another small slice that isn't worth fighting over. Then another and another. Finally, all you have left is the string and that isn't worth fighting over, either.