Riot Police Occupy UNH

[formercia]

[zeemike]

1. Is it a police state yet?

Cause in one the police act like a military unit...just like that.

[dotymed]

2. This has become our society.

The paid (by us) mercenaries have no regard for our rights. Like the cop said when asked "why are you filming me?" by a bystander....."I CAN DO WHATEVER I WANT."
Serve and PROTECT? They were intentionally harming every student possible, no warning...
My only solace? These educated kids are experiencing the military tactics used to enforce fascism. One day they will be in a position to stop this.
The guy narrating (at the beginning) informed me of something that I did not know. In a US police action on foreign soil we are (U.N. rules) not allowed to use pepper spray (chemical, non-lethal weapons) to disperse their crowds. On American soil "we" are allowed to use these weapons against our (peaceful) citizens.
It seems like Germany, just before the burning of the Reich stag.

[Moostache]

6. Yeah, but Syria is now using "chemical weapons"....BOMB THEM!!! INVADE NOW!!!

Sickens me to the core, the hypocrisy of the ruling ownership class is as disgusting as their undying worship of wealth and accumulating more of it.

We have no business lecturing anyone else on the use of ANY kind of weaponry.

USA - only nation to ever detonate nuclear weapons in military action
USA - world's number 1 user of chemical weapons against its own people
USA - building the largest domestic but really militarized police force in the world

USA! USA! USA!

Makes me fucking sick.

[KurtNYC]

3. At link: 14 mins of whining half drunken frat boys telling the cops "you work for us"

"this is public property" "why can't I just walk here?" etc etc etc. 20 year olds, drunk at Noon on Tuesday, who appropriately call themselves "kids."

[formercia]

8. New Age kinda' guy, I see.

If you consider the Stone Age as new.
Perhaps you would feel more at home talking with RimJob over at Free Republic.

[SamKnause]

4. Police

Where are the shortages of police that I keep hearing about ?

I keep hearing about layoffs and the sequester will result in more layoffs ?

Exactly how many more officers were needed in this situation ?

From watching the video, the streets were in dire need of repair.

From watching the video there was no shortage of police, swat teams, and various other 'peace keepers'.

Our tax dollars are being squandered to militarize our police and to increase their numbers.

"I can do whatever I want", stated one policeman.

The sad fact is that he can, and all of those 'peace keepers' in uniform can as well.

It titillates them when they escalate any situation.

[Moostache]

5. This is insanity. Why the hell do you need riot police to disperse a college party?

Why was the arresting officer trying to break that guy's arm - the one guy who had 4 police on him and a FIFTH officer with a fucking pepper spray rifle enacting a battlefield "cover" motion by aiming his rifle at...what exactly???

Why was there any officer concerned at all about being filmed unless they were nervous about becoming the next star of a Rodney King video?

This is nothing new to black communities, they have been brutalized by overly zealous bigoted white police for decades, but its not coming to places like New Hampshire and that is going to create some outrage that is long overdue.

The police in what is now standard issue riot uniforms. Disturbing is too mild...

[firenewt]

7. I fear we will soon be forced to defend ourselves from the police. Assault by police is becoming as

common as assault by criminals. Can't tell the good guys from the bad guys..........

[dotymed]

9. More common I think.. eom

[fasttense]

10. The police and college students seem to hate each other

Reminds me of the 60s. The mere presence of police could start a riot back then. I think it's doing the same thing today.

Weird to see those clean cut macho boys, swaggering around, in clean bright uniforms, playing with clean bright weapons, on a run down road with poor looking college kids trying to figure out what's going on, trying to get back to where they live. The contrast is startling. All that money to police the poor but not a drop to educate the children.