I hadn't really taken their side until I saw this. This is police-state crap, and looks like something out of Half-Life.

Regardless of the point that they are trying to make, this is ridiculous. It goes right to a real-life tin-foil hat scenario. Shot in the leg at 10 yards after several uneventful seconds(and after having asked permission("Is This Okay?")), with no obvious provocation.

/Subby

Trouble's abrewing.

pigs

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side
It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Cubansaltyballs: Yay! We finally have all that freedom Foxnews and the Teaparty have been demanding!

Ambien makes a lot of people say randomly stupid things. Go to your bunk now.

Nice shot.

Man, this country is headed for a serious adjustment.

I'm not a commie or a socialist, but wow, the cops have got to learn that they are OUR servants, and power is derived from the masses, not the other way around.

This is the USA, not China, France, or even Greece. We have the power, not the government.

What's always mystifying in this situations is the mindlessness of the cops. They need to wake up, this isn't a police state, even though they might think that it is.

Wait for it. Wait for it. *BLAM* And then came the lulz.

Fark Me To Tears: Police in Oakland do seem to have a tendency to shoot people for no good reason. What's up with that, anyway?

As a lifetime Bay Arean (there's GOT to be a better word for that) I gotta say, Oakland is a farked up place in general. If you never heard about the Your Black Muslim Bakery murders, look it up on Wikipedia sometime -- crazy things like that could only happen in Oakland.

thats farked. videos like this should be used to press charges after. there was no call for that. That it was 'less than lethal' doesn't help people in comas, etc.

Ostensible.

MrEricSir: Fark Me To Tears: Police in Oakland do seem to have a tendency to shoot people for no good reason. What's up with that, anyway?

As a lifetime Bay Arean (there's GOT to be a better word for that) I gotta say, Oakland is a farked up place in general. If you never heard about the Your Black Muslim Bakery murders, look it up on Wikipedia sometime -- crazy things like that could only happen in Oakland.

Holy Cow, that Black Muslim Bakery story is crazy...

/glad he doesn't live in Oakland

SkinnyHead: Is it legal for police to shoot photographers in a public place simply because they do not want to be photographed?

I can answer that. The law says that when the police declare an unlawful assembly and give the order to disperse, you leave. That means you, hippie. Does this guy think he's exempt, just because he's a blogger?

I might be feeding a troll here, but oh well.

Lets say that this guy wasn't leaving. My best friend is currently finishing up in the police academy and there's a little something in place called "escalation of force." The force you use is directly related to the threat you face. Police officers are allowed to basically use one step up in force based on the situation. There needs to be a threat of violence though. Simply walking around far from the police line is not something that requires a defense.

Are you advocating that any time someone breaks the law, even if he is not causing an immediate threat to safety, he can be shot in response? Do you think every time the police put somebody under arrest, they shoot/tase/pepper spray first? As long as there is no resist of arrest or immediate danger to public safety, use of force cannot be used.

Cubansaltyballs: Yay! We finally have all that freedom Foxnews and the Teaparty have been demanding!

This is exactly what people on the Left think.

coco ebert: Shostie: I wonder if there's a way to weaponize a Slip 'n Slide for crowd dispersal.

If there's a way to weaponize something, we'll find it.

RELEASE the KY-ken! _gloyven

Can we just hunt authoritarian trolls like SkinnyHead on a remote desert island... with margarita guns? ;-)

I just hope that the movement doesn't lose focus and starts just hating police and forgets the reason they were out there in the first place.

Oakland PD seem to be especially good at targeting vets and reporters.

How long until the first police on OWS protestors multiple shooting? Taking all bets!
How long until another kent state?

MrEricSir: Fark Me To Tears: Police in Oakland do seem to have a tendency to shoot people for no good reason. What's up with that, anyway?

As a lifetime Bay Arean (there's GOT to be a better word for that) I gotta say, Oakland is a farked up place in general. If you never heard about the Your Black Muslim Bakery murders, look it up on Wikipedia sometime -- crazy things like that could only happen in Oakland.

Things get kinda Farked up as you go up the East Bay.

I like Bay Areanaut, gives it that tweaky feeling.

The new Fark design makes it super-easy to ignore trolls such as skinnyhead. Just click on the on something he posts and it will turn to and you will have any direct experience his keyboard masturbations. (you may have to go to your profile and set things up so you can see his headers but not his content).

Trolls like him are like a flasher who like the fact that he at least gets some attention by exposing his pathetic junk to school girls even if the attention is just disgust.

UseLessHuman: How long until the first police on OWS protestors multiple shooting? Taking all bets!
How long until another kent state?

It seems the PD and the mayor have no control over the cops on the street so not long I imagine.