Paramilitary Policing of #N17 #OWS - NYPD cop pushes NY Supreme Ct Judge into wall threatens arrest

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Democracy Now quotes  Karen Smith:

I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head,” says Smith. “I walk over, and I say, ‘Look, cuff her if she’s done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, ‘Lady, do you want to get arrested?’ And I said, ‘Do you see my hat? I’m here as a legal observer.’ He said, ‘You want to get arrested?’ And he pushed me up against the wall.

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It seems to me they are deliberately brutalizing women, as if to show they have no line they will not cross. Remember the 3 year old that got maced in Portland? "Women and children first" means something very different to them.