Did NYPD use sonic weapon on OWS?

[WillParkinson]

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/11/nypd-uses-sonic-weapon-on-ows.html

Edited to add link to Twitter Picture: http://twitpic.com/7fdq9r

[xchrom]

1. i thought us gay folk were one issure voters?

what's up with that?

[WillParkinson]

4. Shhh...

Some of us lead double lives.

[xchrom]

5. Gay Central Committee is always sending me warning notes

cause i keep blurting things out.

they suspended my Gay License once.

[HappyMe]

2. I don't think so.

I have been watching all morning. No sign of said weapon.

edited to fix lack of spelling!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. The day of the raid

[barbtries]

6. according to this

they did the other day:
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/730807/zuccotti_cleared:_just_like_mubarak_and_tahrir,_bloomberg%27s_move_will_haunt_him

[EFerrari]

7. Yes, they did. The account I read said it malfunctioned so

the NYPD accidently got their own guys and not the protesters but I didn't run that down on my own.

[barbtries]

9. i don't know how it works

but if it uses loud noise wouldn't it pretty much get anyone in the vicinity?

[EFerrari]

13. I don't know how LRAD works, either.

Except you and I know it has nothing to do with community policing and everything to do with counter-insurgency. :)

[barbtries]

15. yep.

:(

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Here's the pic, from a Tweet on the raid at Zucotti the other night:

I copied the pic from a Tweet that morning, and saved it.

[barbtries]

14. thanks

i assume it's that thing in the bed of the pickup.
when i was a little hippie in the early '70s we always called them pigs. i keep wanting to do that. fucking pigs. nowadays it seems they just love a reason to roll out their stuff.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Yup, and I expect to see one this afternoon.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Well that was because they let their own line

Ahead of the LRAD. It worked...idiots you do not step in front of it.

So of course it malfunctioned.

[barbtries]

18. i think i get what you said.

the police put themselves in the line of "fire" so to speak and got the brunt of the weapon's discharge, so later their spin on the debacle was to say that the LRAD malfunctioned?

i look forward to the first comedy movie made about Occupy Wall Street.

[progressoid]

8. Nah, that's a karoke machine.

[The Doctor.]

11. That would be against the Geneva Convention.

I can't think of a more hostile device.

[Matariki]

12. A couple interesting comments there

Desmond Rutherford says: I thought sonic weapons had been outlawed in the UN?

Fritz replies: Sale of them has been outlawed to China -- because they are used to silence opposition to an oppressive government. Ironic, huh?