Wednesday 19 October 2011

Occupy Wall Street: Jesse Jackson Helps Save Medi-Tent from Cops

As the Occupy Wall Street movement readies for a march against police brutality today and another event for the same cause on Saturday, tense faceoffs continue.
Last night the Rev. Jesse Jackson Jr. arrived at the protests' central location downtown just in time to save the medical tent from potentially being evicted by the NYPD. Reports Gothamist:
Things got tense again for a moment at Zuccotti Park last night when the NYPD tried to take away the Occupy Wall Street medical tent (which is against the rules) before no less than Jesse Jackson showed up. Yup. Fresh from DC, the civil rights activist swooped in just before midnight and appears to have helped persuade the NYPD not to remove the tent just yet (the human chain around it probably didn't hurt either).
The NYPD, for its part, says that officers were just making an inquiry about the tent but that they did not demand its removal..
The NYPD isn't just in the spotlight for its treatment of protesters. At Colorlines, Jorge Rivas has the low-down on the latest racist policing scandal in New York--and it's quite horrifying...
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