{"id":1000,"date":"2011-10-12T08:25:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-10-12T08:25:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:25:01","slug":"omg-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1000","title":{"rendered":"OMG Police Brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately for the Occupy protesters&#8217; messaging, this guy is right:<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"440\" height=\"356\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1213186781001&#038;playerID=16977198001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAA6piHY~,DqRT40XOAr8wI0s0AlLx8-XNKKxaCNBM&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1213186781001&#038;playerID=16977198001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAA6piHY~,DqRT40XOAr8wI0s0AlLx8-XNKKxaCNBM&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"440\" height=\"356\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boston Globe reporter on Occupy Boston arrests<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Based on the videos I&#8217;ve seen, I pretty much agree. The Boston Police did show restraint, although that one guy just getting pushed over seemed unprovoked.<\/p>\n<p>However: It\u2019s clear that there\u2019s a lot of propaganda coming out of the city now, between blaming the arrests on \u201canarchists\u201d or evicting \u201cto protect the plants.\u201d It\u2019s clear to me what this was: a show of force to tell Occupy Boston \u201cwe\u2019ll let you have your little crappy plot of land next to the big ugly vent, but don\u2019t think about getting any bigger.\u201d The lawn next to Dewey Square was just a big barely-utilized field before, so who cares if a bunch of tents pop up for (as the city thinks) a couple weeks? But if they\u2019d allowed the tents to remain in the next park, Occupy would have quickly outgrown that area and would have continued to move down the greenway. Occupy Boston is a <strong>manageable<\/strong> protest right now. If it remains manageable, nothing will come of it.  Nothing will change if everyone&#8217;s still comfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately for the Occupy protesters&#8217; messaging, this guy is right: Based on the videos I&#8217;ve seen, I pretty much agree. The Boston Police did show restraint, although that one guy just getting pushed over seemed unprovoked. However: It\u2019s clear that there\u2019s a lot of propaganda coming out of the city now, between blaming the arrests &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1000\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OMG Police Brutality&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,47,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}