Poet-Bashing Police by Robert Hass
“My wife was speaking to the young deputies about the importance of nonviolence and explaining why they should be at home reading to their children, when one of the deputies reached out, shoved my wife in the chest and knocked her down.”
Robert Hass, a Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner and former US Poet Laureate, is a professor at UC Berkeley. He is 70 years old. He and his wife were beaten by police at Occupy Berkeley.
He wrote about it in this piece for the New York Times. You should read it.
Brian Nguyen, photographer for UC Davis’s student newspaper The Aggie, captured the events of yesterday’s protests from beginning to end, and was kind enough to submit them for publication here at The Political Notebook. Above are a selection of photos capturing the police in riot gear, arresting and pepper spraying the student protesters. What an intense group of shots.
You can follow Nguyen’s Flickr stream or follow him on Tumblr.
Horrifying.
police pepper-sprays seated, non-violent uc davis students. i’ve been walking around for two hours thinking about this video. at the very least feeling sad for the students and wondering how the
police officersfucking jerks sleep at night. 8+ minutes of blatant misuse of power. disgusting.
This makes me fucking sick to my stomach. Guys, pay attention. This is important.
Emotionally intense images of retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis - who has joined the #OccupyWallStreet protests - being arrested by the NYPD.
Captain Lewis has been outspoken against the NYPD’s wrongful use of violence against peaceful protesters.
From what I have seen, Ray Lewis’ conduct defines honor, bravery, and dignity.
There is a media blackout on images of his participation in the protest, and on his arrest:
It’s proved impossible for me to get this shot of former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis being arrested, published anywhere. I was adamantly rebuffed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, NYT, local NY papers, and Newsweek, before even looking at the photograph. One of the only published photos of this paradoxical and intense event is located here at the NYC Observer:
http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-arrested-ows/
Make this viral and they will come.
Ray Lewis gets 2 posts this morning, because this needs to be seen. I’m not even sure why, but this pair of photos made me cry hysterically.
oh my god. so much props to this man. this country has turned into utter fucking insanity.
I have so much respect for this man.
Always reblog Cpt. Ray Lewis.
That’s some real shit there.
Pay attention guys. This is important.
