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How much should you charge for a photograph?Occupy Santa Cruz Activists Attack Photographer; Knife Brandished
Occupy activists once again confronted a photographer attempting to photograph them.
This time, it led to two arrests.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that a 43-year-old photographer was accosted by six Occupy Santa Cruz activists on Saturday while he was taking pictures of the encampment.
One man even pulled a knife on him.
Officers were dispatched to the camp about 1:40 p.m. to a reported knife brandishing, and were told by the 43-year-old victim that he was approached by six people who demanded that he stop taking photographs of the camp, Friend said. When he refused, they threw water and toilet paper at him, pushed him and kicked him before one man pulled out a knife, he said.
The man with the knife fled by the time police arrived, but they arrested Kevin Jones, 40, and Edwin Frey, a 71-year-old attorney.
Officers were dispatched to the camp about 1:40 p.m. to a reported knife brandishing, and were told by the 43-year-old victim that he was approached by six people who demanded that he stop taking photographs of the camp, Friend said. When he refused, they threw water and toilet paper at him, pushed him and kicked him before one man pulled out a knife, he said.
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Fascists on both sides.
More scum-duggery from the occupy faction that demands its rights while respecting no one else's. Glad those assholes got arrested. Hopefully the cops can squeeze the name of the knife wielder out of them.
This kind of "diversity of tactics", all to often tolerated by the peaceful majority is EXACTLY the excuse cops need to come in clubs swinging and rip up the tents as they clear out an occupy area.
You are a tool. These guys are not the entire Occupy movement. They don't represent the actions of the majority. Most of the original OWS people were educated middle class college grads that can't find work. These 40-71 year old men were most likely homeless and taking advantage of free shelter and food. Not that the homeless don't have a right to protest, but there are other factors to consider when speaking of encounters with them. Please educate yourself.
Hello again asshole. Your inability to interpret what you read is astounding. Are you dyslexic? I've repeatedly said the majority are peaceful. I've also said SOME, not ALL of the occupy movements have these problems. Again, your inability to interpret what you read correctly is really your problem, not mine.
Perhaps in this incident the offenders may have been homeless, but you don't know that. I DO know in a number of incidences where photographers have been harassed it has NOT been by homeless people but by so called "organizers" within the movement, who have stated that they do not want their secret meeting(which they were having in a public spot) photographed.
Yes I AM critical of the majority of peaceful people in these groups because they tolerate this behavior. I've only seen ONE incident on film where an occupier actually stuck up for a photographer who was being harassed by others.
In addition to the homeless you mention some of the occupy groups have "black bloc" shitheads who smash windows and have been know to threaten media people. Rather than condemn this, Occupy Oakland referred to their actions as "diversity of tactics".
I didn't come up with that term, people in the occupy movement did, to excuse the ASSHOLES in the movement rather than doing the right thing, which would be to push them out.
I do support the occupy movement in principle, which you also continue to ignore. What I do NOT support is toleration of the asshole minority by the majority. If the majority DON'T condemn and push out the assholes within the movement, these very same assholes will ruin it. I don't want to see that, do you?
The Occupy LA members who were harassing photographers and myself were not homeless, but organizers.
I have never been a real fan of the Tea Party movement. But I wonder how many of you that are defending the Occupy protesters by stating that these few bad apples are not indicative of the entire movement were willing to say the same thing about the Tea Party protesters. There were many published interviews with Tea Party protesters that expressed views that were ignorant, racist, and in some cases just plain stupid. As a result, the entire Tea Party was painted as a bunch of ignorant white hillbillies.
Today we have the same thing with the Occupy movement and yet we are expected to believe that these are just a few bad apples.
My personal opinion is that the overall intelligence of the USA has been decreasing for decades and these sort of movements tend to attract the resulting uneducated masses who need someone to blame for the sad state of their lives.
Bob is just another race bating, name calling Liberal pretending to know everything.
Here ya go Bob. I did the research for you.
http://www.metrosantacruz.com/metro-santa-cruz/03.21.07/ed-frey-0712.html
Check out the guy who was arrested and tell me if he was homeless or if we was an activist exploiting the homeless to do his work for him.
Typical. Just one more felony added to the hundreds at Occupy protests
Remember, their for Freedom of Speech, theirs, just not yours.
I guess the photographer was a really wealthy 1% ' er.
The joke is: Without the media, the vast majority of people in this country would have no idea there were any occupy movements going on.
"I want to document your plight!"
"Screw you. Get out of here or we'll stab you. THIS PUBLIC LAND IS ONLY FOR US!
A post on a photo from Occupy Boston's fb page - Once again, Occupy Boston shows the RIGHT way to deal with media
Bil Lewis
Secret Meetings
Not! We constantly talk about the assumption that there are police informants in every meeting, every email thread, every event. I've never seen any evidence, but people I don't quite rely on say they're certain. Alex has been floated as an agent, as with many others. No one has accused me, which kind of surprises me. I would think I'd be suspect #1.
But it doesn't matter. We are open. We would not be able to exclude a police officer if he wanted to be involved openly. It would be a hell of a discussion, but we couldn't do it.
Redundant report is redundant? Is the second, absolutely identical paragraph a giant typo?
Yes, I have first hand knowledge!!
So Edwin Frey, a 71 y/o Jewish attorney is part of the Occupy movement? He's the 99%?? That's hysterical!
I wonder if he drove there in his 550SL?
Well, you wouldn't think he would take a bus with the common people do you.
The real issue with this movement and any other similar grass roots movement is that they all start out with lofty goals and ideals, then they grow in size and are taken over by other groups which capitalize on the confusion associated with that rapid growth and morph the movement into something different. In a sense no different then what happen to the Tea Party, with the religious rights influence. Now we will see the general population grow increasingly tired of these demonstrations and spiraling cost associated with them, as the main stream media begins to marginalize the movement more and more.
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