MB Civic

Knefel in Salon ..

Monday morning marked yet another Day of Action for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Eight cities on the West Coast attempted to shutdown ports. (The hashtag #PortShutdown on Twitter is moving a mile a minute.) In New York City, there was a solidarity march targeting Goldman Sachs .. word began to spread that protestors should reconvene at the Winter Garden, a nearby public atrium owned by Brookfield Properties (the same company that owns Zuccotti Park) .. [snip – nypd overreact and move in on peaceful assembly] An officer said, “Get out of my face. I have a gun, and I don’t need people up in my face like this.” I said, “What did you just say?” “I don’t like people in my face,” he said. “I just saw my brother thrown to the ground by you guys,” I said. “That wasn’t me,” he said. “But it was the police. And now you just threatened to take out your gun?”

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