YouTube From: 'Russia Today' Police overdoing it on OWS protestors'
Published: 16 October, 2011, 04:25
There has been a consistent overreaction of police against the 'Occupy Wall Street' protestors, claimed Alex Vitale, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College in New York."Police seem to be unable to distinguish a peaceful, though disorderly, march and a gathering truly engaged in destructive activities," he said.Vitale noted that specific demands have started to crystallize among the protestors."The US is kind of late to the game," Vitale said, recalling previous demonstrations against austerity measures, corruption and concentrated economic and political power around the world.He believes that "a coordinated global movement" has been born, calling attention to corrupt relationships between the economic and political elites. He also argued that a new level of anti-austerity activism has been reached, and may spark significant reforms and restrictions on free trade policies.
http://rt.com/news/police-overdoing-protestors-vitale-951/ NEW YORK (AP) — There are more arrests of Wall Street protesters in New York. Police arrested about 45 demonstrators in Times Square Saturday night for either refusing to disperse or for trying to take down police barricades. Throughout the day, some 70 people were taken into custody, including those who demonstrated at a Chase bank.
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