From In These Time: Mayor Bloomberg seems to be going the added step to protect the billionaires who wrecked the economy

Despite NYPD Efforts, Wall Street Stays Occupied

Those who attend protests that challenge corporate power and unrestrained capitalism in the U.S. and Europe may have become used by now to a police response that is both excessive and untargeted, whether one is an active participant, an observer or merely a passerby. (I myself was among those coralled by the Metropolitan Police in London's Oxford Circus on May Day 2001, and can attest first-hand to the fact that the 3,000 people kept there without access to food, water or toilets for seven hours included at least one pair of bemused and terrified tourists from continental Europe who had a plane to catch and who begged in vain to be let past the line of riot police shields.)

But from all accounts so far, it appears that yesterday the NYPD, presumably under the edict of Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Bloomberg, took the policing of such protests to new and violent levels.

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