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NY City Police Official: We Will Sue Any Occupy Wall Street Protester Who Hurts An Officer

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The recent violent confrontations between law enforcement officials and protesters in Oakland, Times Square, and elsewhere have captured the media’s attention and provided ample discussion fodder for both the movement’s supporters and detractors. But it seems that, while we’ve been privy to coverage as presented through the filter of the infotainment media and the protesters, we’ve yet to hear from those within or representing law enforcement.

That’s changed: Now, Ed Mullins, president of the New York City Sergeants Benevolent Association, has taken time to respond to this violence in a New York Post op-ed piece. In the midst of reports on the protests, he writes, not much has been mentioned about the fact that at least 20 officers have been injured by what he describes as “flare-ups with protesters whose actions are becoming increasingly hostile and aggressive.”

Moreover, he believes the demonstration itself has devolved into “police bashing:”

What started out as a protest against corporate greed has turned into police bashing of the highest order, which is being done both literally and figuratively. NYPD officers have been working around the clock to maintain peace. The last thing any of us want is to be in the line of fire, but we take seriously our oath to uphold the law.

We are trained to be tolerant of verbal assaults, but we are not expected to engage in street fights with professional agitators or stand idly by as we are pelted with bottles, rocks or other debris. For that reason, I ordered our attorneys to prepare to personally sue any protester responsible for injuring an NYPD sergeant.

Rather than simply take time to air out his grievances, Mullins also offers to put his money where his mouth his. “I assure anyone,” he writes, “who dares to attack an NYPD sergeant that the long arm of the law will extend far beyond the criminal-justice system, as we will do whatever it takes in seeking civil redress.”

h/t NY Post

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  • Anonymous

    Sue? Oooooooh, how wimpy is that? Why not really get huffy, and criticize their ensemble on ‘Facebook’?

  • Michelle

    Good, I’m scared for them.  You have protesters carrying signs that say, “All of my heroes are cop killers” and flyers that say, “‘When Should You Shoot A Cop?’

    Obama has refused to condemn this behavior.  It’s obvious the protesters are trying to provoke the police in an effort to justify the violence that they WANT. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s about time. Do the crime, do the time. It is a FACT that this has NOT been an entirely “peaceful” demonstration. No matter what MSNBC is trying to sell. There is plenty of video and police records to disprove anyone claiming the LIE that this is peaceful. To say otherwise is just a flat out lie. I can say the grass is purple, but that don’t make it so. So I hope these bored white kids have deep pockets the next time they assault a cop.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    Is there any doubt that the OWS movement is compromised of complete idiots?  Why would Democrats want to align with these people?

  • Michelle

    I think the first part of your statement answers the second part.  Oh and Dems thrive on chaos.  They hope is distracts from the utter failure Barry has been. 

  • Jackie_Treeh0rn

    Well then how much will those women get to take Tony Baloney for?

  • Cain

    CNN contributor, Dana Loesch, is retweeting tweets from her followers accusing the Marine, who was injured protesting in Oakland, of treason. Really out of control.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Rife/1253520073 Derek Rife

    Can the protestors sue the NYPD? Because at this point it seems that they could bankrupt the city of New York.

  • Anonymous

    They could try. Good luck with that. Would really make the OWS crowd look good. Go for it.

  • Anonymous

    Especially considering all those trust fund babies rebelling against their 1% parents for not paying off their useless commie-indoctrinating liberal arts degrees, this could be a sure fire way to recoop the hundreds of thousands of dollars OWS is costing the cities.

  • Harry Flashman

    Committing a battery is commiting a battery whether it is on someone who is acting with authority on behalf of the state, or on your neighbor.

    It past time that officers sued for this. The dweebs at OWS don’t have the right to commit battery on them any more than they have the right to commit it on any other person.

    Sue their asses.

  • Anonymous

    You are defined by your associates – If you stand next to a man who throws rocks at cops and do nothing, do not walk away, do not protect those fellow servants who took an oath to uphold the law, that’s your deal too.  If Olsen were an active marine, he ought to have been tried.  But he’s not.  He’s just a private citizen now, one who threw away what respect one might’ve held for his service when he operated a site bashing his former institution.

    The ire sent his way is deserved.

  • ScarredReality

    He hasn’t condemned or approved of them.  He simply said he understands their frustration.  Personally, I do think you are right on this though, the police are part of the 99% and should be respected, and they have a right to protect themselves.  Just because they are protesting doesn’t give them the right to be violent.  I support the movement as a whole, but I do not support violence, racism or bigotry. 

  • Anonymous

    Why sue them? They are unemployed penurious libs.  But is nice to see union emps turn against the OWSers.

  • ScarredReality

    I never heard of her.  But that’s a really stupid thing to say.  It’s part of the Democratic system to be able to protest.  None of this has anything to do with that.

  • ScarredReality

    Yes, they can.  But you would need proof of excessive force used on a compliant protestor.  Unfortunately, the police are allowed to use a certain amount of force, whereas the protestors are not.

  • Anonymous

    Yet another tactic to intimidate peaceful demonstrator’s peacefully bringing Wall Street excesses to light! Police bashing is not the correct term. “Braggart embellishment” and “petty police prosecution” are terms used to describe the police actions on peaceful demonstrators. Police should remember they are also on video to be broadcast to the world. All America and the world will know how they react or act!

  • ScarredReality

    It’s funny how all of you are focusing primarily on NY Occupiers, since there are Occupiers in almost every state now.  And they are not all rich white kids.  In my state, CT, there is a variety of people – college students, pre/post college students, the disabled, the middle aged, the elderly, families, unemployed, homeless, etc.  And none of them are violent.

  • ScarredReality

    There are always bad apples in big groups of people.

  • Anonymous

    Yet another tactic to intimidate peaceful demonstrator’s peacefully ”

    Yes, so peaceful that 20 cops have been injured, over 2500 OWSEers have been arrested and a girl reported a rape.

    Other than that, how did ya like the play Mrs.  Lincoln?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, about 2500+

  • Michelle

    The fact you can’t understand why police are allowed to use a certain amount of force, and protesters aren’t, speaks volumes. 

  • ScarredReality

    No, it doesn’t.  Because I never said I didn’t understand why the police are allowed to use force.  I said I found it unfortunate.  It can sometimes cause more issues then suppress them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    Still no Mediaite stories about the organizer who admitted they were throwing rocks and bottles. Mediaite is trying to cover up the facts as usual. 

    What Mediaite doesn’t want you to see: 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHlHiNEZ1wA

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    As a Tea Party committee member at the OWS, we’re getting former Tea Party members to join and form an alliance and we will be meeting in DC tomorrow in front of the capitol. 11:30am est.  

  • Anonymous

    But you fail to see that 20 cops being injured and women getting raped is a good thing in the eyes of a typical “progressive’.

  • Anonymous

    I will laugh my ass off if any of the OWS protester show up wearing Che Guevara t-shirts.

  • unmutual

    Occupy Wallstreet anti capitalist protesters vs the big bad evil police = Obama re-election 2012.

    Ha ha.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: You are not a Tea Party member! Nothing OWS stands for resembles Tea Party Platform!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Hah!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: I’m the 53% and believes that OWS should be self reliant and quit mooching!

  • Anonymous

    Fact: When you sue does the suits include their parents?

  • proud2tbagu

    Only if they want to get paid.

  • lazzzlo

    Personal responsibility coming to bear with 90 degrees.

    If the cop gets antagonized then the antagonizer is responsible for their efforts.

    The cop says…” I wouldn’t have done it except…”

  • lazzzlo

    No they can’t because they are not in compliant with a general order of the police to clear the streets. for a common cause.

    And they don’t sue the police. They sue the city. This isn’t an arbitrary action by the police.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Rife/1253520073 Derek Rife

    It just baffles me. These cops shot a man in the head with rubber bullets, cracking his skull, and yet they’re worried about the protestors being violent?

  • lazzzlo

    I am really sorry about that but was the victim randomly picked out and shot?

    Why was he shot in the head?  which sucks.  Wasn’t the crowd 1st pushing before the police acted?

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    The Idiot Left® wants to back the OWS’rs and yet keep the Police/Union votes for Odumba! LMFAO! heheheheheheheheheheh!

  • Anonymous

    Garsh, they were supposed to stand there and let people throw glass bottles at them because….why?

    Someone tell that young idiot that assaulting a cop is a FELONY.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO

    Yeah, sure you are.

  • Anonymous

    New York Police came out today as a criminal organization:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/nyregion/officers-unleash-anger-at-ticket-fixing-arraignments-in-the-bronx.html?_r=1&hpw

    They are proud criminals.

  • Anonymous

    No that’s the right’s tactic of showing at OWS and passing them to try to catch to protesters in negative press.  Unfortunately the Occupiers are pretty hip to it and it didn’t work.

  • Anonymous

    That’s why they shut out the press when they go in to attack protesters.  Unfortunately for them the protesters have their own reporters with recorders.   And the whole world is watching.

  • Anonymous

    do you have some video to support that …. or are you just parroting what you’ve been told?

  • Anonymous

    You’re lecturing us on ethics?  Too rich!

  • Anonymous

    The you shouldn’t support it when the police practice it either.

  • Rio

    Absolutely nothing to do with the injured officers.  Just proof that within organizations, or protests, there are people that do not act appropriately.  There have been bad cops throughout history that have crossed the line and when found are prosecuted, same will be for the out-of-control idiots in OWS, the 31% ‘ers that have already said they will use violence to achieve their goals.

  • Rio

    BS, the left was participating in “tactics” throughout the tea party protests, fortunately tea party members were “pretty hip to it” and followed, filmed and posted many episodes online.

  • Rio

    Throwing rocks, bottles and cans and advancing toward police officers when they were told to stand back and stay on the sidewalk is disobeying police orders, intimidation of police officers and acts of violence.

    That videoing acts both ways and the officers are also filming the events so “All America and the world will know.”

    Meanwhile, in New York:

    Overall security at the park deteriorated to the point where many frightened female protesters had abandoned the increasingly out-of-control occupation, SECURITY-TEAM MEMBERS SAID.

    snip

    But PROTESTERS and a cop on duty tols the Post that most of the crime goes unreported because of a bizarre “STOP SNITCHING” rule.

    “What happens in there, stays in there,” said the cop.

    emphasis mine

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL

    thanks Alex, nice writing.

  • Anonymous

    God bless the NYPD!

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    Apparently you don’t know what precincts are, you stupid bigot. Maybe if you even got the right borough people might actually care what you have to say for once.

  • Michelle

    Kitty, Even the liberal minions at Mother Jones are now admitting that the police did NOT start it.  Give it up.

  • unmutual
  • Anonymous

    Let’s remember, there have been only a few bad apples in NYC. And in Atlanta. And in Cincinnati. And in Nashville. And in San Diego. And in Oakland.

    Oh, just forget get it!

  • Anonymous

    It should be a crime for you to post here.

  • Anonymous

    Uh, not quite. Not only are the protestors not doing themselves any favors, but it turns out most of them don’t even support Obama.

  • Anonymous

    You and I know that, but unfortunately regressive kitty only sees things through the left side of her glasses.

  • Anonymous

    The whole world is watching!

  • Anonymous

    Deep pockets and helmets.

  • Just asking

    The protestors are not wearing riot gear.  I can’t imagine how any unarmed (without weapons) could inflict any serious damage.  I haven’t seen any cops being carried away on a stretcher for medical treatment.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the way all Republicans feel about truth.

  • Anonymous
  • Rio

    Actually Jayson, you are the joke.  Most police officers are just like anyone else in our society except their jobs are more dangerous.  They are there to serve and protect and then go home to their families like my son-in-law who spends his working hours watching over his community and then goes home to my daughter and their kids.  You would probably like him, he is quite a personable guy, saved a baby’s life a year ago while visiting us, good thing he happened to be there otherwise that baby would not have survived.  Her parents brought the now toddler by early this summer during the annual visit, and gave him a photo of her.  That visit was a heavy experience and the photo was a gift that he treasures.  This story is really a nothing if you want to compare it to what police officers experience, but this story is a bit of a taste of what those that serve and protect are like and how incidents affect them.  And, one just like him will be there for you, a stupid little simpleton, should you ever need one. 

  • InigoMontoya

    You keep saying that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means.

  • Keziah Kloud

    Up against protesters in t-shirts and jeans the police, covered in helmets, face shields and body armor and armed with clubs, guns, and gas – what are they going to sue for?  They got a hangnail putting on their body armor?  They tripped over their own steel toed boots and twisted an ankle?  Get real, NYPD.  You plant drugs on innocent people to up your arrest counts.  You sodomize helpless prisoners, probably framed by your own police force.  You sue Google to remove video that shows obvious police brutality.  You threaten women for sexual favors.  And you’re going to sue?  

  • Anonymous

    I know you don’t. All Republicans are the same way. You’ve been systematically trained to reject truth.

  • Keaton

    Was he shot or was he hit by a bottle or brick being thrown at the cops by the jealousy movement? I have watched any video’s I could find that claimed to show him being shot, they don’t show anything. Claiming he was shot by police is probably just propaganda put out by the jealousy movement media!

  • Anonymous

    Kudo’s to your son in law for caring & helping others. Unfortunately, police officers like him, are few and far between.

  • Anonymous

    The precincts have nothing to do with it. The entire police force, backed by the union, supports the corruption. You’re sure stupid.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    And you don’t read the stories you link to, shit-for-brains.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    “Up against protesters in t-shirts and jeans the police, covered in helmets, face shields and body armor and armed with clubs, guns, and gas – what are they going to sue for?”

    Assault, you sickfuck.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    That N.Y. police official has to be a Republicon, because that is one of the most ignorant statements that I’ve heard in a long time!!

  • Texan

    The neoprogs hate the police. Always have, always will.

  • Texan

    You went to which law school?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Harvard!! Which hospital did you seek help with your meth addiction??

  • Texan

    Liar.

  • Anonymous

    You’re just a simpleton authoritarian, making excuses for a government out of control. Like all Republicans, you support the largest, most powerful government possible.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tony.westover Tony Westover

    And you don’t read the stories you link to, shit-for-brains.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Well, I’m a conservative and don’t like them either.  They’re almost as scummy as the OWS protesters.  And corrupt to boot:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/nyregion/officers-unleash-anger-at-ticket-fixing-arraignments-in-the-bronx.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

  • http://www.facebook.com/matthew.minard Matthew Minard

    I’LL SUE YOU PROTESTOR!!!  I’ll take your police ass to court for daring to infringe on my civil rights.  Good thing 80% of American carry a smart phone with a video recording option.  All I’ve seen so far is brutality from police to a bunch of peaceful protestors. 

  • blue0505

    Dear Mr. Mullins,
    What makes the sergeants union think that misery won’t be
    coming their way soon?  Ask the
    physicians that fought against health care.  
    Who do they think are going to take a lot of the 500 BILLION in cuts the
    Regressives just proposed? 

     Unless you are in the 1%–your support should be with OWS,
    the list is long and you could be next. 

  • K_in_Canada

    The video is all over youtube and if thats not enough you clearly see an officer tossing a flashbang at people who try to come to the help of olsen for no reason…why cant you people be objective for a moment and stop picking at silly issues to deflect whats really happening? Cops are using excessive force to intimidate citizens…what about nypd officer bologna pepper spraying the penned in young teacher for no reason? You should be concerned that your fellow citizens are penned like cattle, pepper sprayed, beat up and arrested for no reason…i have been to the protests here in canada and its exactly like in the us…non violent crowds of all walks of life, yet the only thing the media finds to say is that “they dont even know what they want” along with a picture of the worst bum they can find there…what is so wrong with wanting the end of corporate influence in politics? Whats wrong with wanting the end of corruption? From an outside perspective, here’s what it looks like: there are hardcore republicans and hardcore democrats and those parties have made a hell of a job dividing your country…The people controlling both parties must be rolling on the floor when they see you fighting like idiots knowing he engineered all that division…it really is a tragedy, i hope the american people wake up…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1273763631 Julie Dinkins-Borkowski

    I have heard the marine may not have been hit by a police projectile.  It may have been a bottle thrown by the protesters.  Which makes sense because if he was hit by a tear gas can, where was the gas spewing out everywhere?  I think the OWS folks are liars.

    How much you want to bet there are illegals being paid to start violence, break windows, start fires, vandilize banks in the wallstreet protests?

    It is coming out that there were PAID gang members in England that did the same thing.  Paid to disperse through the crowd, start fist fights, break windows, burn trashcans etc.  It is all about group-think and hearding or nudging the group into action.  Sunstiene wrote papers on the cascade effect in order to achieve an agenda.  They wont stop until the avalanche is achieved, and they have plenty of money to pay lots of people. 

    Van Jones is in control and he knows how to work a protest. Investigate Oakland occupiers. Investigate them all. Evil is at foot here.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1273763631 Julie Dinkins-Borkowski

    Turns out the Marine might have been hit with a protester bottle.  Not a police projectile.  Which makes sense.  Where was the tear gas spewing out of the canister that hit him?

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