My sister's husband took a job that moved them to Broward County eight months ago - she turned a pale shade of yellow when I told her the county's reputation.

She told me they had a hard time finding a church there that wasn't full of extreme right-wing nutjobs.

Cops always lose it at places like that. And always focus on the most innocent of people to push down. Instead of the actual punks who go to those kinds of protests just to give cops shit.

Though this police form as a whole should be ashamed of itself. Protect and serve... ha!

And yet, what's being done about it? She didn't even file a complaint at the time ... unless the police hear resistance in the form of complaints, suits, etc, they'll think (correctly) that the public tolerates and condones what they're doing ...

Needs a 'brutality' tag.

She's an attorney and she was too scared? Mixed-up bravery - brave to protest, but not to use her legal rights. Weird. I guess getting shot by the cops will do that to you.

Cops here (Ontario) have to fill out paperwork for just pulling out their guns - someone gets shot then the SIU (special investigations unit, provincial level investigators) get called in to investigate.

Man, I <3 Ontario so much sometimes. Excellent tag suggestion, gonna fire in the "brutality"... I don't know why this is currently linked to "muppets"

Tags changed from "police state, protestors" to "police state, protestors, brutality" by gold star member Krupo.

Ok...what is with these "tags changed by gold star member blah blah blah" or whatever...do we really care to hear about that? It's like an internal administration matter...who cares? If you change something or promote something or move something, just do it.

Fricken "Web 2.0" non-sense if you ask me.

Username changed from "Goofball_Jones" to "Mr. Grouchy Pants" by all star member SiftBot.

Ha! Do not taunt siftbot. RTFFAQ.

Mr. Grouchy Pants,

The reason sift bot lets everyone know what's going on is so that there is accountability. If you look at wikipedia and other community sites they frequently feature systems for documenting who does what and where. As much as we admins live on the site we can't be everywhere all the time. This way if someone does something that irritates another member and it makes it to the blog there is a record in the thread of exactly what transpired.

It's not really "fricken Web2.0 nonsense" if you give it any serious thought for half a second, Mr. Grouchy Pants. Should any user just be able to go around changing other people's tags without anyone else able to recognize that fact? If administrators change things, they aren't necessarily broadcast, but if another user does it there must be a paper trail that everyone can pick up on. We must know what change was made and who made it.

That is the funniest siftbot comment ever. Who knew you could rile up ol' sifty.

I love the mayor's comments. Not that the police state shouldn't have been firing on innocent women and children who clearly were not a threat.. But that he should have stopped those comments by the cops on camera. We have militarized our police (formerly illegal) and given them "non-lethal" and "less-lethal" weapons.

Every rubber bullet stand a good chance of killing you or at least permanently injuring you. So there is no excuse to be using them unless you would have shot your 9mm at same person. The cops have been desensitized and convinced that protesters deserve it, and are hippy cockroaches, and they think they are doing good. They think people shouldn't protest. Idiots on here think people shouldn't protest, or bring their kids to protests. Hey, assholes, how do you think this country got started?! Go read some American Rev history.

Bush can now send Nat'l Guard if he feels like it. Not only is habeaus corpus history, but so is posse comitatus. Enjoy your free speech zones. The end times are near.. soon you can witness the birth of the Corporate States of America. Maybe they won't change the abbriviation. The Unincorparted States of America... yeah, that's more Orwellian.

Here's some more examples from the same few days of protest. Clearly it's the protestors.. and there is no fascist police state. These are not the fascist droids you are looking for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7WGOmKmSP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LCQgREv5b8

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