The Occupy Movement and the Militarization of Policing
Submitted on November 6, 2011
By Ayesha Kazmi - Thursday 3 November 2011
In Boston and Chicago, reports of extended and humiliating detentions of targeted occupy "leaders", typically from Direct Action, media, legal and medics groups, are disturbing...[T]he Occupy Chicago media team further reports that arrested individuals were deprived of their phone call, food and water, and that mattresses were removed from cells, while one woman was placed in solitary confinement.
