. i saw a lot arrests, i saw an anarchist group rush a barracade (one of the coolest things i've ever seen) all in all it was pretty cool, but to many yuppies and not enough punks.
Yeah, its always cool to endanger the well-beings of cops and others. And yuppies and punks? Who cares what they are as long as theyre for the same cause...oh, but I'll get to that.also the cops were way to controlling, it took me about 2 hours to from 52nd and 1st to grand central because the police was blocking everything, there was definatly no need for a lot of what the cops were doing,
Cops are controlling by nature. Thats what we're paid for. Odd that we'd have to try harder than usual to keep the peace at a friggin PEACE RALLY. The reason streets/sidewalks were blocked off is because we were trying to protect the general public from the crowd. Keep in mind that we expected maybe 100, 000 at most. We were caught off guard for the 1st time in a long time (usually theres way too many cops at the start of an event, and its a waste of manpower. Today we definately cudda used more right away.) We had to call for more at the 1st uprising. Boy it was no fun being one of only a handful of cops those 1st few hours.fortunately i only heard of a few minor incidents of brutality.
I heard of a couple:
A high ranking police officer was punched in the face by an alleged "peace lover"
several protesters jumped on the head of a police horse, trying to wrestle it to the ground and kicking it.
someone threw a bottle at another horses head, injuring his eye. at least 8 cops were injured
...oh, I'm sorry, did u mean the big bad police yelling at you? event organizers say there was about 500,000 protests, 5x as many as they expected
I'm not sure of the official count, but it was definately way more than expected, or reported by organizers prior to the event. But soon into the event, it bacame apparent that alot of people werent there (just) for world peace. I saw Peta signs, Greenpeace signs, Gay/Lesbian organization signs. I guess its easy to get numbers if you let just anyone march with you. Not since the infamous PR Day parade have I been more ashamed of a group of attendees to a NYC event. Though I try to keep in mind, as Mojo pointed out, that most trouble makers usually arent really there for the cause. Still, the organizers, though proud of the numbers, have to be just a little embarrased at the events that besmirched "their day".
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