City settles Occupy 'sucker punch' case

[Fire Walk With Me]

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/city-settles-occupy-sucker-punch-case-1.5583465

New York City agreed Thursday to pay a $55,000 settlement to an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator who claimed he was "sucker punched" by an NYPD inspector in an incident that became an Internet video sensation.

In his complaint in federal court in Manhattan, demonstrator Felix Rivera-Pitre charged that Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona punched him in the head and knocked him out without provocation...

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[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Not exactly fair. It really means *I*... along w. the rest of the taxpaying citizenry...

... have to pay the 55k.

Consequently... neither Bloomberg nor anyone else associated with the throwing of the punch.... i.e. the police commander and the punch-throwing cop himself.... could care less about the 1. the injustice done to the victim; 2. the injustice done to the taxpayer. Additionally,similar injustices therefore are likely to recur.

I favor a system where governmental employees are *personally* responsible (liable) for their own behavior. On duty and off.

[Pharaoh]

2. heres an angle

of the video

[dtom67]

3. In the future,it seems clear.....

that organized protest must include a "documentation brigade" to record not only events , but individual police officers and their activities. If this seems silly, you should note that police around the world already do this.

These are terribly desperate times. Protests will soon become a thing of the past in America. If you get your news exclusively from the MSM, it already is.

The chance of change from within is slim.

The chance of change through revolution is Nil.

Its kinda sad when you think about it;

the entire Human race speeding toward its own extinction.

The response of the Elite is worldwide repression. Pain, misery, starvation and War are the fruits of their leadership. ( ownership is probably a more accurate term )

All for the sake of Power.

The saddest part is that we could stop it all, by merely standing up and saying :" no more ".

Desperate times......

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. The tactic of turning all cameras upon police abuse is Orange Bloc.

Shout "CAMERAS!" when they are required.

We are not done. When we have no fear of the police, of the prison-industrial complex, of the tools the 1% loves to throw at their enemies, we will be free and they will know it.