Police Brutality Reports from #M17 at Zuccotti Park
There were multiple reports of police brutality and violence being used against protesters and members of the media on March 17, 2012 at Zuccotti Park in New York. Here are some tweets and videos about that from my Twitter feed tonight.
- Note: I was not at Zuccotti Park tonight -- all of this was on Twitter/UStream/YouTube.
- Updated at 3:25AM: Bucky Turco of ANIMAL New York has more video of police violently shutting down Zuccotti Park tonight. His entire post is worth checking out, as always:
Video of NYPD Shutting Down Occupy Wall Street — ANIMALA little after 11:30PM, on the sixth month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement and with about 700 people present, an officer i...- Updated at 2:55AM: The NY Times has an excellent wrapup of tonight's stories out of Zuccotti Park, via their City Room blog:
City Room: Scores Arrested as the Police Clear Zuccotti ParkAs hundreds of people gathered in the Financial District on Saturday to mark the six-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, protesters ...- Ryan Devereaux (@rdevro), a reporter with The Guardian in New York, Tweeted that his press pass was pointed out to NYPD subordinates by a more senior officer.
- Later in the evening:
- Clare Trapasso (@claretrap) of the New York Daily News reported being shoved by police:
Spoke to #OWS protesters hurt by police clearing #zuccottipark. Some fell, were hit by batons or shoved into grates http://pic.twitter.com/l112Yyb3- Bucky Turco of AnimalNY (@ANIMALNewYork) says he was pushed while attempting to photograph an arrest:
- @PennyRed reported that she was pushed to the ground:
- Glass was broken on an NYU building at 55 E. 10th Street when NYPD officers shoved someone who is reportedly an OWS medic named Jose. (His name was given via @dontbeaputz.) Many photos of the smashed door made it to Twitter tonight -- here are two, as well as a fuzzy video (filmed secondhand via @OWSNYCLive's UStream account).
@MegRobertson @OccupyWallStNYC That's Jose's head being smashed into the door. And my friend @NaSh12 being arrested beside him. Jesus Christ- The result was a newly broken door at 55 E. 10th Street. (Video confirms that the door was not broken prior to the arrest happening in front of it. Its not clear, however, that the protestors head was what cracked the pane, as was widely disseminated on Twitter tonight)
Just saw police slam a protester into this door, 55 East 10th. This was the result. Arrestee was punched in the face. http://pic.twitter.com/BKw7eN4N
