Observe the cops keeping the occupiers safe as the occupiers illegally confront, harass, and obstruct drivers.
Without those cops, the occupiers would have been road kill.
Cops protecting the occupation
Observe the cops keeping the occupiers safe as the occupiers illegally confront, harass, and obstruct drivers.
Without those cops, the occupiers would have been road kill.
With no cops I would have beat those people bloody. You don’t block traffic in LA.
I wonder who arrived first? The cops of the protestors?
Usually these things are choreographed at a level of authority that is in charge of both cops and protestors. Not always, but that is the way to bet.
If they could not arrest them all, could have arrested whichever one was most obstructive, which would probably have been sufficient to fix the problem. If they did not want to enforce the law, why show at all?
Yep. It was pretty clear the cops were there to protect the protesters. With no cops the first truck would have run right though the crowd. Here’s what happens with annoying leftists protestors and no cops around:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45AS1Wynbc
Yee-Hah!
Yup. Classic, high-grade Astroturf.