Peaceful Protester Tasered Outside DOJ While Demanding Wall Street Prosecutions (VIDEO)
Source: Huffington Post
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.
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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.
The video above shows three large men surrounding Pittman as she tries to cover her face. Abruptly, an officer tasers her, and she crumples to the ground before being hauled off and arrested.
Pittman's arrest came a day after 17 former homeowners were arrested, according to District of Columbia police , some of them also tasered while demonstrating outside the DOJ building.
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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/doj-protest-taser_n_3312879.html
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Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)and Teabaggers get questionnaires.
Why exactly is the Right whining again?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)classykaren
(769 posts)LeftInTX
(25,456 posts)The Occupy movement seems to be unfairly targeted.
Congress and the MSM certainly won't give a hoot.
indepat
(20,899 posts)crush constitutionally protected left-wing dissent of governmental policies/Wall Street greed and corruption.
historylovr
(1,557 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)she was a big threat...
Can they give these cops some lessons in how to handle protestors?