HOW FUCKED UP IS THIS (RI police brutality)

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

oh no leg is broek

it just boggles the mind. it's like they went to the mayor daley school of crowd control. in their initial statement to the press, the police said they were "severely outnumbered". by what, a bunch of brown university students?

it makes me kind of bummed that Jacky's Galaxy was implicated--I used to like eating at the West Warwick branch when I was in high school.

did they mace fattey with digicam

i agree with chaki

ironic that the anarchists are complaining about the very thing that most justifies their existance.

why don't you take your observations and shove them up your glib asshole, kevin?

iww isn't even anarchists right?

yeah not technically anarchists.

excuse me from reading the information provided by the link:

I think thats the point of the IWW mate, its organised as an anarcho-syndicalist union (even if its not exclusively anarchist) therefore everyone has an equal say, its entirely democratic, unlike the cops who did that to the lady in the pictures.

while not exclusively anarchist it is an anarcho-syndicalist union. here's one definition of anarchism:

1. The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished.
2. Active resistance and terrorism against the state, as used by some anarchists.
3. Rejection of all forms of coercive control and authority

i would say the police in question are displaying coercive control and authority.

whether or not they are, holy shit brutal force and bodily harm!!
fuuuuuuuuuuuuck (the police)
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ian also otm, I now feel guilt for wanting delicious shrimp pad thai

elmo, there's a protest march on the 26th in north providence, not sure if you'd wanna show up for that. suffice it to say I'm fucking enraged and wild horses couldn't drag etc.

providence journal coverage of this started out shakey but has been pretty good the past few days:

http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/newsblog/archives/2007/08/update_injury_a.html#more

Alexandra had already had one operation to reattach a detached fibula (calf bone), and will be having another to reattach severed arteries and relieve pressure from accumulating fluids, Scott said.

Alexandra's mother, Jan Enstrom, said the first surgery harvested a vein from Alexandra's foot to repair the artery and it saved the leg.

She said the second operation is to increase the blood flow to the lower leg and to make sure she will have use of the leg.

good thing she's a rich kid! :X

"make sure she will have use of the leg"???!!! Jesus Christ.

actually I don't know how rich she is - 22 yo w/ no health insurance living in south providence. she was supposed to play at the made in mexico / set of red things show at as220 on saturday, which unfortunately ended up being a benefit concert for her.

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isn't she a college student?

hopefully the legal system will take care of her

captain save a ho pro bono

i'm sure she has 100 already

the internet is big

she is not a rich kid. she doesn't live in brooklyn like you.

zing a zing!

wtf, wobblies ain't anarchists.

I just got accused of being a yuppie by a smiths fan.

The Smiths: enemy of the working class

being in college = rich???

If she went to college she'd have health insurance. Colleges do that.

http://www.agatebooks.com/img/donald-sobol-encyclopedia-brown.jpg

it's always nice to come up with a pithy, smarmy comment
but FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
picture of that girl's leg
poor woman

yes, the more profound FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK is the preferred response. police brutality happens. every day.

i need cigarettes.

of course, cops usually know better than to do this to nice white kids with digital cameras. wtf

If she went to college she'd have health insurance. Colleges do that.

Mine didn't.

You *can* get health insurance through a lot of colleges, especially state schools, but that doesn't mean that people do.

This seems like a pretty nasty overreaction to some protesters, but not knowing the Providence police I wouldn't put this past chalking it up as a couple officers freaking out a little too quickly. It's just incredibly fucked up that they managed to mangle her leg instead of just knocking her over.

I wonder if there's any good resource online about a riot that happened in my college town a couple years after I left, where the police both caused and fueled it... complete with tear gas.

You *can* get health insurance through a lot of colleges, especially state schools, but that doesn't mean that people do.

iirc we were required to.

i wasn't.

Both universities I attended in California required it. Sounds like a state law.

holy shit @ leg

breaking legs like that is HARD. someone fucked up v v badly.

xp been required in both NH and MT for me

unrelated police awfulness:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zRj7MlzRrAo

to clarify, north providence and providence are separate cities with separate police forces -- north providence, while not without crime, is a lot more suburban, even provincial in my experience. so while it might be tempting to lump the NPPD in with the notoriously violent PPD, i'd have to credit providence cops with a little more experience in dealing with protesters and activists. these were just 2nd-rate pigs who had no experience dealing with peaceful assembly and seriously misjudged how to respond.