This is video, reportedly shot during the OccupyCal protests yesterday, November 9, of Berkeley, California police officers driving their batons into the stomachs of protesters at UC Berkeley, who appear to be doing nothing but linking arms and voicing opinions. The officers in the middle are striking the two women directly in front of them square in the gut, ruthlessly and mercilessly. I don’t see any projectiles thrown or anything else that could possibly justify the brutality we’re seeing here. Unless cops just don’t like the concept of peaceful protests.
Reblog this, folks.
(h/t katiesilorio, et al)
WTF?
David Wynne is a cartoonist and hospital porter from South East London. He is highly opinionated and somewhat anti-social. He refuses to make the seemingly obligatory knowing and mildly post-modern (but horribly cliched) joke on the subject of writing about himself in the third person.
