Peaceful Protester Tasered Outside DOJ While Demanding Wall Street Prosecutions (VIDEO)
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Carmen Pittman came to ask why bankers weren't held accountable for the crisis. The answer came from a stun gun:
http://ow.ly/1Wv4ZB
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/doj-protest-taser_n_3312879.html
WASHINGTON -- Carmen Pittman had no intention of becoming an activist, but her bank, the Department of Justice and Occupy Atlanta turned her into one. Shortly before her grandmother died in 2011, the family realized that JPMorgan Chase was preparing to foreclose. HuffPost interviewed her late that year for a story on Occupy Atlanta and found a bewildered and desperate 21-year-old, talking about her childhood home in the past tense.
"My every Christmas, my every Thanksgiving, my every birthday, my every dinner was in this house," Pittman said then of a home that had been in her family since 1953. "This was the base home. We could not stay away from this home. This home is my every memory."
A year later, she won the house back from Chase. During the course of her fight, she was arrested for sitting on the floor of a local Chase branch and refusing to leave until the bank turned over the deed.
On Tuesday, she was camped out in front of the Department of Justice in Washington, having been fully transformed into an activist by her experience, asking why more Pittmans have been arrested related to the foreclosure fraud crisis than top Wall Street executives. She was answered with a stun gun.
(More at the link. Big surprise here with the revelation in Joe Schlabotnik's thread that the Kochs hired cops to protect ALEC meetings...)
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