Comments on: Photo of the day: police drag #OWS protester by her hair at #N17

By: MOCH

MOCH — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:37:00 +0000

I’m sure his wife is very proud.

By: D Wyatt

D Wyatt — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:22:00 +0000

What a WELL DECORATED Officer he seems to be judging by his many medal stacks… What bs, Its a pity it took peaceful protesters being beaten to draw enough attention to how todays police just dont give a fuck and will gladly ruin someones life with injuries or false charges if it will upset you and bring a smile to his face.

By: Ann Marie Hughes

Ann Marie Hughes — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:25:00 +0000

You should look up the stats for domestic violence and police officers; it’s not pretty. He’d be beating his wife as soon as he got home, most likely.

By: Kitty Antonik Wakfer

Kitty Antonik Wakfer — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:00:00 +0000

Publicize names & locations of all government enforcers so that the far greater number of non-enforcers not approving of enforcement behavior can withdraw all voluntary association if enforcer will not be persuaded to get a truly value producing job. No sales, no service, no camaraderie – NO ANYTHING! SHUN and OSTRACIZE. Make government enforcement - the initiation of physical force and therefore the harm – an unpopular role. Protests are just not enough: http://selfsip.org/focus/protestsnotenough.html
When there are far fewer enforcers, government will be able to do far less harm. Remember, that all of the regulations/laws/edicts/directives/rulings/etc of all legislators, executives (including President), judges and bureaucrats are merely words whether uttered in some official government chamber or written in one of the millions of documents issued by any of 3 arms of the federal government, and all the levels in the 50 states. These words only become reality because there *are* government enforcers, those willing to threaten and actually initiate physical force to compel individuals to do something they would not do of their uncoerced choice. And there are plenty of instances, as can easily be seen in this and hundreds of other recent photos/vids, of enforcers initiating physical force – even to the point of death – as they enforce various “orders” from above.

By: Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:38:00 +0000

I think he’s giving her a bunch of flowers for her birthday.

By: Emo Pinata

Emo Pinata — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:39:00 +0000

So it’s literally blind zealotry. That makes a lot of sense.

By: robb monn

robb monn — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:48:00 +0000

Jesus. I’m pretty sure that is Arone of Buke and Gass fame. She’s an old friend. Hope she’s ok.

By: Michael Hasse

Michael Hasse — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:29:00 +0000

“we CAN see her newly split earlobe”

You’ve obviously never seen a split earlobe, they bleed like a mofo! What we see in the picture is simply a dark red colored earring. It even has a thin metallic edge on both sides if you look closely. (But I do realize that people often don’t look closely. :)

By: kiko zen

kiko zen — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:18:00 +0000

the tension is on the strap, not her hair. look at her expression, not the look of a woman who’s hair is being pulled with two hands. there are many clear pictures of police brutality but this is not one of them.

By: mirogster

mirogster — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:35:00 +0000

On that video it seems like that policetard is clearly provoking the crowd. Perfect excuse to use pepperspray etc.
Btw that first officer in a row is a female policetard.

By: puufuu

puufuu — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:34:00 +0000

No, he’s just telling you that the cop in question did most likely not, in fact, grab her hair to “drag” her away. See the video above.

There are enough examples of reprehensible police behavior going on here as it is. Getting people all riled up about something that just didn’t happen does not further anyone’s cause. It just gives your opponents one more angle to attack you.

By: Ramone

Ramone — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:27:00 +0000

Nice to see the police are comfortable using tactics banned in professional wrestling.

By: Boxer Rebellion

Boxer Rebellion — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:45:00 +0000

That’s better, now I’ve got ya! COME HERE BITCHEZ!

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:41:00 +0000

however, from THIS angle we CAN see her newly split earlobe.

That’s far more “protect and serve” than hair pulling. Amirite?

By: Mari Lwyd

Mari Lwyd — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:09:00 +0000

In that photo you can't obviously see the strap (the black strap over dark blue uniforms and shadows lacks contrast). However, in this video it's easier to see. Here's a reddit thread full of interesting OWS media.

By: L_Mariachi

L_Mariachi — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:25:00 +0000

Regardless of whether it’s hair or a strap (and it does appear to be a strap,) if the cops are trying to make these people go away, why is he pulling her towards him instead of pushing her away from him? Reminds me of a certain ex-girlfriend, come to think of it…

By: puufuu

puufuu — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:31:00 +0000

Okay, if you object to swearing just let me state that the title of this post does not agree with the picture; the police officer is probably being a jerk but he’s clearly holding a black strap. He does not appear to be “dragging” anyone by their hair. If the title is a quote, put it in, wait for it, quotes and contextualize it. Accuracy matters.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:26:00 +0000

The friendly officer is clearly helping her out in her attempt to pull herself up by the bootstraps.

By: Velouria Pixie

Velouria Pixie — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:45:00 +0000

Yea, I think it’s a strap to a backpack. One thing I thought immediately: if someone was to grab my hair and pull me back I wouldn’t look peaceful. It would hurt like hell & I’d be screaming and reaching back to stop it. Just saying. I don’t agree with the police in this at all. They’ve engaged in enough egregious behavior as it is.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:41:00 +0000

Oh hai apologist. Check out her earlobe.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:39:00 +0000

Combine that with some social networking and some geotagging and some time stamping and we’d have quite a doo-dad to ID the brutal ones.

By: Emo Pinata

Emo Pinata — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:12:00 +0000

I would care about this if the strap he’s clearly pulling on at least matched the color of her hair.

Seriously, there’s been a slew of horrid shit pulled by cities (especially the politicians playing both sides) and this is not it. By latching onto every shit photo circling twitter it dilutes the impact.

By: Alvis

Alvis — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:53:00 +0000

Know what’s going to be awesome?

When this tech finally comes out, and all these blurry, shot-from-the-hip protest photos suddenly display all the officers’ faces, name tags, and badge numbers clear as day:

http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2011/10/behind-all-the-buzz-deblur-sneak-peek.html

By: แอ็ะปปี้

แอ็ะปปี้ — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:41:00 +0000

Anyone know identity of protester? Heard she was from Vermont. guess it doesn’t really matter.

Look for the recent footage from UC Daley of a ring of seated students being maced, then driving riot cops away shouting “YOU CAN LEAVE”. One of the most amazing OWS vids so far.

By: Sergio Jara

Sergio Jara — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:32:00 +0000

NEVER give up the right to bear arms. Imagine what would become of us.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:31:00 +0000

of course he grabbed her hair,once he ripped her earring out it was the only available handhold. .

By: Ana Kahoopii

Ana Kahoopii — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:29:00 +0000

Maybe he was reliving fond childhood memories: “Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair so I may climb the golden stair” we have to get the audio to be sure.

By: Graysmith

Graysmith — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:38:00 +0000

Pulling girls’ hair is so first grade.

By: Michael Hasse

Michael Hasse — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:37:00 +0000

Somebody please fix the title, as a couple of folks have already pointed out, the officer is pulling a strap NOT her hair.

Now if he used the strap to drag her down for a curb-stomp that would be a different story, and I’ll be the first to rail against police brutality. But we have to see evidence first and this isn’t it.

Summary: nothing to see here, move along…

By: Genre Slur

Genre Slur — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:49:00 +0000

I love some Masters decorate their guard dogs with arbitrarily-designated bits of stuff called ‘medals’, ‘badges’, and ‘commendations’. The dogs just go nuts for those things — so grateful, loyal, thankful. The urge to maintain the shiny ‘special’ collars also makes the guard dogs maintain a culture of loyalty-hierarchy, so the Master doesn’t have to do it. Good strategy on the part of the lazy-but-clever owners!