We the people!

Today's New York Times article boldly, states that "police, too, release videos of arrests on bridge". The intent of this article seems to be to be for city agencies to validate the actions of the New York City Police Department thus far, against “Occupy Wall St.” protesters. Included in the article are two videos in which officers are shown announcing the intent to arrest citizens. They do this with hand held mega phones. Given the numerous online videos showing police abuse of protesters, I think the attempt to validate the actions of the NYPD is laughable. The NYPD’s use of mega phones and a video camera seems like a weak attempt to save face. Nice try. But it won’t work! The world is watching.

The activities on Wall St. are seemingly being suppressed by television media and city government.  Few televisions stories have been shown about this huge historic event and moment in social movement history. Even so, protesters have come together with no city resources and equipment available to them. They are using their own voices as human mega phones. People are holding signs up to make their peaceful, although firm intentions clear. They are making their messages crystal clear to the NYPD and city government while the police do not make their intentions clear to protesters. We the people are not foolish. We will not believe a weak story such as this one. There’s too much evidence otherwise.