New York City police drag young woman through the street by her hair

The United States constitution provides for "the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
First Amendment

The governor's of each state where this kind of violence is taking place, at the hands of the police, are ULTIMATELY responsible. This violence against peaceful protesters is being sanctioned by your governor.

Remember this when you go to vote for your state governor. Do not let these cowardly governors disassociate themselves from what they have ordered done to peaceful, and lawfully assembled protesters, without your consent.

Maybe Wisconsin isn't the only state that needs a recall....

These men were heroes once...

The OWS should perform citizens arrests on cops that break the law.

If we saw an on duty cop raping someone that would STILL be illegal even though he's a cop!

Who watches the watchmen? Dont we have a moral obligation to hold our cops accountable and to use every legal method to stop them from brutalizing people?

Being a cop is not a license to break the law and many, many of these altercations caught on tape are clear violations of the law.

Would it be immoral or illegal for a ordinary citizen to pepper spray a cop that is using illegal force on another human being? No. If we saw a cop beating a man to death because he "dont like coloreds" we would have ever legal right to pepper spray him in an effort to save the man being beaten.

What about New York or Oakland cops that "dont like hippies and fags" and decide they want to punch a couple of them in the face? Don't we as citizens have a legal right to use force to stop cops in the act of committing a crime?

Not every cop is a saint and no cop has a right to break the law and unnecessary force is a crime!

Pig mother fuckers are worthless always looking for a freebee when their not busy stompinig on some ones rights

Let me see...no guns, no knives, no hatpins or any other weapons carried by the protestor being dragged. Uniform, big gun, mace, hand cuffs, baton with 2 handles, steel toed boots or shoes, helmet, facemask and armed backup. Picture of being dragged by the hair by the second person, priceless. To the rest of the world, welcome to America where your rights are protected first, last and always.

"Why police officers apprehended the young woman is unknown."

because they are pigs?

Maybe the protestors are just a little to peaceful and docile to begin with....

They need to start putting the half-starving homeless folks on the front lines. The ones that know they'll at least be fed in prison, and might get some adequate health care for a change....

Oh No!!! Not by her Hair.... =(

The Pres could stop this in a heartbeat if he wanted to...hmmmmmmm

unconscionable

Obama and Clinton need to practice what they preach to other countrys and start stopping this outrageousness to unarmed American citizens.This needs to cost him votes and the rethug candidates scare the hell out of me.

Let's see... the other day, when OWS got that court order saying they could go back to the park, a young man was taunting police by jumping over the barricade to get a flag and he kept hopping easily back and forth over the rails. A woman WITH THE COURT ORDER IN HER HAND was trying to get him to behave until the police finally recognized rule of law. So a cop punched HER in the face....

Now this? Somebody needs to get those big brave friggin cave men off the street until they evolve. They are afraid of other men and that makes them very dangerous. They like to take it out on women, and that marks them as abusive cowards.

Honestly I just do not comprehend these police that do this kind of thing, they are harming the public -- but quite frankly they are endangering themselves and their fellow officers as well. You know you can only kick a dog so many times before that dog bites you. Don't they know better than to pour gasoline on an open fire?

I just want to post a few lines of the Declaration of Independence, which many may not have read. It is however, a great document, and one that needs repeating.

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. "

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Now....there is a long list of grievances against a tyrannical England of the time. Well, England is no longer our tyrant, our own government has become our tyrant.

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Ooops. That really looked uncalled for. Luckily we are all armed with cameras now.