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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by Erik Kain on November 19, 2011
Police at UC Davis maced a group of peaceful Occupy protesters in a gross display of excessive force Friday. The video, which I posted earlier today, has since gone viral. Police are not backing down from the action despite the police actions being widely criticized. “If you look at the video you are going to [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 11, 2011
Seattle has its own caped crusader – sort of. Phoenix Jones wears a costume and claims to fight crime, but vigilantism isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be, and now Jones has been arrested on assault charges after an incident involving pepper-spray and a case of poor judgment: Jones is out of jail after being [...]
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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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