Police Repression Escalates Against Occupy Movement
Submitted on November 19, 2011
By Kate Randall - WSWS
[New York Mayor Michael] Bloomberg...claimed that in the face of what he termed demonstrators’ “antagonism” the police “maintained incredible restraint”...In reality, it was the NYPD that employed violent methods...dressed in riot gear, batons drawn, using teargas and “sonic cannon” crowd control weaponry to attack peaceful protesters and ride roughshod over the rights of free speech and assembly.
