Pepper Spray !!

[crackp0t]

Pockets of violence might develop, but we're a long way from widespread "lashing back." People are too comfortable. They have too much to lose. For example, striking a cop is (I believe) a felony. Faced with the option of spending years behind bars (and coming out with a felony) and walking away after getting hit with pepper spray, most would choose the latter.

It is a felony, but depending on how you do assault them it can be dropped to a gross misdemeanor or the equivalent where you are. That also depends on your past record and your lawyer.

 

[xmcp123]

I have seen various data, and there are inconsistencies. For example, here's a poll that demonstrates the opposite of the Quinnipiac poll (it's a PDF):

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_US_11161023.pdf

The Quinnipiac poll was done just in NYC. The PPP one is national.
But that said, the PPP poll has a higher percentage of "Conservative/very conservative" people polled than it is commonly accepted our country has. And if you take a look at the data outside of the conservatives, it has plurality support for Liberal/Very Liberal/Moderate. So everyone aside from the right, which is more or less what I had indicated earlier.

Frankly, I always take poll results with a few grains of salt. Unless I can see the questions (methodology), and learn how the target population was selected ("randomly" is thrown around, but that poses potential issues), I say "huh!" and move on. When I say, "OWS is losing the public," I'm basing it on random conversations and online, ear-to-the-pavement, coverage. I admit, it's not very scientific, and I could be very wrong.

As could I.

Comparisons of support percentages to those of other groups are also problematic (apples to oranges, etc.). Kinda like asking a guy to submit approval percentages for his wife and mother. You'll get data, but comparing them with any hope of insight is difficult. I know I'm splitting hairs, but there you go.


* hah! (Thems the jokes, folks.)

Agreed. They can be used as generic indicators, but not much more. It's also worth noting that the lower numbers of people that occupied in areas outside of NYC made it easier to get overwhelmed with groups that had an agenda. It didn't always happen, but it was a trend that I certainly see as something that would give their approval rating a hit outside of NYC.

It's pretty hard to track tbh; they're in hundreds of cities now in over a dozen countries.

 

[SUP3RNOVA]

This generation(the 20-25 year olds) are fucked in a way we haven't seen in recent history.

Seems odd to me, since I live in Buffalo and not one of my friends has had any trouble finding a job. They're all 20-25 years old.

 

[lose lose win]

Hah! You've obviously not seen the protests springing up in the UK as well then, that contain mostly older people, and little or no students, you dumb fuck.
This isn't about a pressure on rights, this is about a bunch of whiny fucking pussies, with a huge entitlement mentality, and when they don't get what they want, they whine and sit in fucking circles.

The fuck are you even talking about? Old people in the UK? This is a thread about a specific incident in the US. Plz read more better.

If I would've seen you where you were from, I wouldn't have bothered to reply to your post in the first place.. It makes a bit more sense now. Sorry to have wasted your time bro. gd luck make monies online.

 

[xmcp123]

Seems odd to me, since I live in Buffalo and not one of my friends has had any trouble finding a job. They're all 20-25 years old.

As nice as anecdotal evidence is, the fact is that there are less jobs than there are people who want them by a very, very large margin. Not just low end labor, but high end as well. It varies from region to region how intense this is. This is confirmed by govermental, liberal, and conservative statistics. There is no dissent whatsoever on the issue.
I'm originally from Michigan, so I got to see the bad end of the scale first hand.

 

[turbolapp]

Are you the brightest knife in the drawer?

i loled

 

[Moxie]

lol you guys

They were blocking a walkway which as mentioned is illegal and infringing on everybody's rights. They were given ample time to get up and leave, and were told they would be pepper sprayed. But they chose to be hipster pricks fighting for no cause, so they got sprayed.

If you're going to do something illegal, be a huge prick about it, and refuse to follow the law...you deserve it. That is FAR from police brutality.

What law were they breaking? This is a wide open quad on a college campus.


Police brutality is the intentional use of excessive force...

Police brutality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


As I mentioned, a federal court ruled that pepper spraying the nonviolent qualifies as excessive force.

 

[DewChugr]

Cop been busy.