Now Not Just CUNY Hates Petraeus After Cops Punch Out Peaceful Protesters

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/09/21-1



Now Not Just CUNY Hates Petraeus After Cops Punch Out Peaceful Protesters
by Abby Zimet
09.21.13 - 8:00 PM

In a bizarre escalation of the fight against CUNY's hiring of David Petraeus, six CUNY students were charged with disorderly conduct and other offenses during a protest even though video showed it was the students who got battered by police. The charges sparked outrage by both CUNY faculty and, eventually, over 300 academics nationwide who issued a statement saying that they “deplore the use of violence and brutal tactics" against students peacefully protesting against the hiring of Petraeus, himself responsible for so much violence and brutality in Iraq and Afghanistan. Saying they support the efforts of students to resist efforts to turn the university into "a war college," they demanded that the students' charges be dropped and Petraeus be fired. Well-played, NYPD.

[zeemike]

1. The war criminals should never be allowed around young people

Especially as a teacher.
Let the bastards go work for the defense industry like most of them do.

[Renew Deal]

2. The video doesn't really show anything other than a lot of yelling

And doesn't show what lead to that moment.

[antiquie]

3. Kidney punching doesn't count? ~ nt

[glowing]

4. It does show the guy on the ground with 6 cops on top and sucker punching him in the side while he's

completely restrained. I'm sure if you find a composite of all the videos, you will see the story unfold. And really CUNY wasn't very smart in hiring Petraeus in the first place. If he wanted a college position, he'd be better welcome at a military college or a college that had a major ROTC program like Virginia Tech where many of the kids are in a ROTC program and engineers are acooped up by war contractors to make more nasty killing devices from our tax dollars.

It seems ludicrous that anyone thought he would be well received in NY city at a liberal arts college. And I'm sure Petraeus has never felt this type of blow back or in his face contentious bile hurtled in his direction since the days of boot camp.

And in the past, when the police and Univ top dogs start harassing the people who Are paying lots of money to attend the college and who are indenting themselves to try and make their way and future into the world, they only cause more attention and larger crowds the next time around.

We are at a boiling point in this country. If 2014 doesn't bring us sanity in the congress and a method for creating jobs and a better future, it's going to get ugly. Those at the top are seriously out of touch. They have been listening to themselves way too much at cocktail parties and behind their gated security. They are really in for a rude awakening if things don't start working out in a more fair way.

[2banon]

6. ***** n/t

[2banon]

7. uhh.. look again for the punches in the kidney...

while the protester is down on the sidewalk with at moments 4 or 5 cops on top of him.

Don't know how well the M&M covered this one, but the irony of news broadcasters (here) reporting on Police Brutality against demonstrators in other countries should not be lost on anyone.. yet it continues.

[L0oniX]

5. This is what happens when the 1% control our gov and war criminals go unpunished.

Wow ...I made it passed 20000 posts.

[Unknown Beatle]

8. Congrats

on 20000. May we see 20000 more insightful posts from you.