When a Code Pink protester in Denver asked police why they had arrested another demonstrator, the police reacted with truly appalling violence. According to the Rocky Mountain News,
“A Code Pink protester shown on video being shoved to the ground by a police officer’s baton and later hauled away remains in jail on a charge of interfering with an arrest but should be released tonight, Code Pink officials say.
The video shows an officer quickly shoving Forrest with the length of his baton, forcing her to the ground with a smack. Later, as she was speaking with reporters, the video shows police coming behind her and dragging her away.
Lt. Ron Saunier, a police spokesman, said the 30-second video is “kind of jumpy” on his computer and doesn’t give the full context of the situation.”
Judge for yourself:
Gee, I’d say the context is pretty clear. It is called a violation of human rights and United States Law.
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Oh, and by the way, I know this because I had a close relative who was a member of the Denver Police Department for over 30 years.
And, while I’m quite surprised that–so far–there hasn’t been anything like Chicago in 1968 given the contemporary ferocity of the DPD as compared with Chicago in those days, brutality at the DPD is patently disguised under the pretense and pretext of serve, protect and enforce public order and safety–as this video amply demonstrates. [LOL]
I am sure that the obviously injured Code Pink protester will be unable to enforce her civil rights against the City and County of Denver to any degree whatsoever. The Colorado court system has constitutionally degenerated parallel to the Department of Justice under Ashcroft and Gonzales. Certainly, today, the sophistry of just one Scalia– balanced by the fairness of a Fox News–assures the triumph of completely impuned violence.
A big flip of the bird to the bully cop, who is a complete disgrace to humanity.
Who trained this pond scum neanderthal?
Get down bitch?
This is an acceptable way to keep the peace?
I hope the Code Pink Gal sues the daylights out of the Denver PD for this senseless act of brutality.
A pox on the house of the filthy, brutal cop.
May you get what you have coming, scumbag.
PS Code Pink Gal, I hope you are OK.
This reminds me of the Iraq War where they were targeting non-imbedded journalists to stop the truth from getting out.
The first incident was an overreaction, possibly by an individual cop who hated her politics, the second incident of pulling her away from an interview was calculated. It was obvious that she posed no threat except for what she was SAYING to the collected media.
This is, of course, an outrage. But in Bush’s America all outrages are now called “policy”.
spitfire said:
“This reminds me of the Iraq War where they were targeting non-imbedded journalists to stop the truth from getting out.”
In Minneapolis the police have accosted a group of journalists there for the GOP convention and confiscated all of their equipment and notes. They were there specifically to document police brutality next week. If this is how they’re acting BEFORE the convention I shudder to think of how they’ll act next week.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/27/85558/7052/357/576284
We ARE living in a police state folks. The jaws have been tightening for years, and now I believe we have arrived at closure.
This is why we can not remain silent to the move by our government to embrace torture. What we embrace as policy eventually gets turned back onto our people. This, of course, was not torture. Torture is worse, but it is a reflection of how far our country has moved from respecting human rights. If we don’t get control of our government it WILL control us. We no longer have the luxury of remaining silent, sitting back and allowing our country to pass laws that will make us a POLICE STATE. Watch the above video and ask yourself this, “Does everyone HATE US for our Freedoms?” like the Republicans are so fond of saying? “They hate us for our Freedoms.” I think not.
I hope shes ok.
Thanks for the video, I’ll be posting this on my little site as well. As for a police state, I can’t say we’re there yet. Yes right now there are systemic abuses going on in response to perceived threat. I can’t call this a police state because to me that undermines the struggle of people in a real police state, like those in Tibet who were being slaughtered for protesting. Our rights are being violated, they have no rights.
This is a huge issue to me, but I think we need to be careful how we frame it if we are to confront this. A little hyperbole with like minded folks here is a great way to vent. But I want to hear this on tongues of people across the country, I want this nation to talk about why our rights must be defended, even if the offender is the police. I want those who try to defend the police given their fair hearing and then eviscerated with why freedom is more important than absolute order. And I think that hyperbole is an easy way to get people to ignore you.
So I hope I didn’t offend anyone, lets get this out there in a manner that will get people talking, and who knows maybe even thinking. That might be asking too much.
Peace!
Oh my God! Horrible! WTF! I am so LIVID after that, this isn’t the America they taught me about in elementary school, this is Communist Russia or Nazi Germany, and it’s about time the Police recognized that. No excuse, that was police brutality WITHOUT QUESTION. I hope this gets MSM play, but it might interfere with their agenda. We’ll see. Worst thing since Rodney King. Fascist pigs, I hope the girl is okay, and I hope she uses the millions she’ll get to fund anti-police-harrassment activities.