Police Mace Elderly Protestors at Chase Annual Meeting

[sixmile]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/17/police-mace-jpmorgan-chas_n_863342.html



'Police maced several elderly protesters Tuesday at JPMorgan Chase's annual shareholder meeting in Columbus, Ohio, according to activists present at the event.

Hundreds of people from dozens of community organizing groups swarmed the Tuesday meeting to demand the company overhaul its widely criticized foreclosure policies. JPMorgan Chase has improperly broken into the homes of its borrowers in order to pursue foreclosures and has been accused of robo-signing thousands of key foreclosure documents.'

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'And several elderly protesters were maced as police attempted to move protesters back from the building.

"There must have been 10 police for every banker," Goehl told HuffPost. "JPMorgan Chase, they don't only own the government. They own the Columbus police department."

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'JPMorgan Chase spokesman Tom Kelly declined to comment on police actions, directing any questions to the Columbus Department of Police, which did not respond to phone calls. Kelly did suggest, however, that the Robin Hood-costumed protesters may have been marketing plants from Capital One, a bank known for using viking imagery in its television advertisements.'



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[Dawson Leery]

1. Good little Germans, I mean Praetorian Guards"men".

:puke:

[Bozita]

2. BP was calling the shots for most of the local cops along the Gulf.

Reminds me of the Sterling Heights police captain kicking a Detroit newspaper striker in the '90s.

The papers were found out to be funneling money to the city to pay for all those cops.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Here's your pork!

http://www.daymonjhartley.com/Pages/strike.html

[Bozita]

4. Thanks for those pics.

Both Detroit newspapers today are mere shadows of their pre-strike versions.

[IamK]

5. Why the Viking helmets? n/t