by Erik Kain on November 22, 2011
[See updates below.] The above video is of Jennifer Fox, an Occupy Seattle protester who says she had a miscarriage after she was pepper-sprayed and punched in the stomach by police at a recent protest. Dominic Holden reports: “I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” she says. [...]
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Events like the one in the above video have been far too common in the police response to Occupy protests across the country. I do believe that Occupy is at a tipping point, and that it must grow beyond and evolve away from the tent city occupations, but this police response is absurd and excessive. [...]
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Although it’s legal to record police in Philadelphia, things like this are still happening when ordinary citizens dare to exercise their right to take videos on their cellphones: TAMERA MEDLEY begged the police officer to stop slamming her head – over and over – into the hood of a police cruiser. Thinking they were helping, [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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