A weekend on Wall Street with the NYPD

By Tuesday September 27, 2011

As O’Donnell notes, this ain’t just about what happened on Wall Street.



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  1. msbpodcast says:
    9/27/2011 at 10:29 am

    I have known many police officers and I usually think that, for the most part, they’re okay.*

    As O’Donnel noted, to get to wear the white shirt, you have to be a prick and a bully.

    What the supervisor was doing there when he should have stayed well back and let the uniforms handle the situation is simple: he’s an unrepentant schol yard bully.

    He’d line up his pals behind him, stomp on a puppy and, sneering, he’d ask/dare the kid who’s puppy it was: “What cha gonna doo about it?”

    The answer to that question is of course “nothing” and he knows it. (Nobody has deliberately wanted to bait the bear and risk getting the shit beat out of ‘em since the ’60s.)

    The only thing that I’ve found to counter the attitude is to scare them with even bigger pricks. I just mutter “You’re not under surveillance, but I am. Stay at least 3 feet away…” (It doesn’t matter whether its true or not. Once implanted, the doubt stays…)

    *) I hate cops who are helicoptered in to neighborhoods where they don’t know anybody nor anything about the environs.

    That’s when you get deadly force accidents; when slamming the door on a clunker gets a jumpy air-headed ignorant-ass idiot cop to fumdle for his gun.

    We had a few of those in Québec as well as down here in NYC (there are police departments like that everywhere,) and that’s when the morons come out.

    We have had people who were trying to comply with an officer’s request, spooked the scardy-cat and got shot the hell up anyway. (Another Swiss-cheesed immigrant goes home in a closed coffin.)

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  2. TThor says:
    9/27/2011 at 11:26 am

    Why white or blue shirts? Brown is better or even black shirts with a small skull and bones on one lapel, and the nice SS on the other….

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  3. birddog says:
    9/27/2011 at 11:49 am

    When the only tool the police have is a hammer everything starts looking like a nail.

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  4. tcc3 says:
    9/27/2011 at 11:59 am

    TeaDud is only in support of freedom for people who agree with him.

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  5. massivecabbage says:
    9/27/2011 at 12:25 pm

    Who is gaining by everyone going tit-for-tat in the comment section of a video that, for good reason, should be uniting people of all political distinctions. Some would say that children are growing up faster. I would say the opposite, that there are rarely any adults existing in our society. Hmm I wonder what could have contributed to that phenomenon.

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  6. Mac Guy says:
    9/27/2011 at 12:30 pm

    Shit’s fallin’ apart. That’s all I’m sayin’.

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  7. scandihoovian says:
    9/27/2011 at 12:37 pm

    #7 – I partially agree with your theory, it was definitely a contributing factory during the race riots. However, I also believe a lot more assholes have twitter accounts now, and the unification that once existed is hanging on by its last moral thread.

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  8. Faxon says:
    9/27/2011 at 12:46 pm

    #9 Marcus
    Here’s the deal, dumbshit. I go to more fucking news events in a week than you see in a year.
    Fuckhead.

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  9. Faxon says:
    9/27/2011 at 12:49 pm

    #18 I am a Libertarian, I hate government. I also hate Anarchist shits who “protest” at the drop of a hat just so they can go break shit.

    I am not a “right winger”. I just happen to see the real shit, and see how the media distorts it to control tools like yourself.

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  10. Harry says:
    9/27/2011 at 1:07 pm

    The cops should be arresting the criminals in the buildings that ruined this country.

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  11. Marcus says:
    9/27/2011 at 1:56 pm

    #29. Fuxon – I am sooo impressed. I worked as an engineer for an NBC affiliate. Big Fucking Deal, camerman. Nobody wants to hear about your minimum wage job.

    From what I remember, cameraman, you had the lowest paid position at the station, after the dumb ass weather girl.

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  12. aslightlycrankygeek says:
    9/27/2011 at 2:12 pm

    #4 maddog,
    How about this…. How about Every, Every Police officer be equipped with a personal recorder they wear around their neck.

    Good idea. I would expand this to say every government employee be equipped with a personal recorder they wear around their neck. Corruption problem solved.

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  13. Eric says:
    9/27/2011 at 2:55 pm

    Nice to see that Occupy Wall Street is finally getting some press. Sure it took Police responding with pepper spray and taking down photographers to do it, but at least it’s gaining some traction in the mainstream me…..

    Oh lookie! Nancy Grace has a boob!

    And Michael Jackson is still dead!

    What was I saying again?

    Oh, nevermind.

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  14. Rob Leather says:
    9/27/2011 at 4:20 pm

    Holy crap! O’Donnell’s really grown a pair since he stepped out of Olbermann shadow.

    Who ALSO appears to be covering this story.

    Ahhhh.

    I’m sure this is just a mere coincidence.

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  15. Miguel says:
    9/27/2011 at 4:34 pm

    Of course, in some countries it’s forbidden to even video or photograph ANY ONGOING CRIME without asking for permission! It’s considered an ILLEGAL RECORDING.

    Where? My nice sunny country, Portugal…

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  16. Taxed Enough Already Dude says:
    9/27/2011 at 4:42 pm

    #28 The only disagreement i have with your reply, it spoke only to #9…at least 10 others could be included.

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  17. Taxed Enough Already Dude says:
    9/27/2011 at 4:48 pm

    Where is “Occupy White House” to arrest the train of special interests being bailed out for campaign contributions….and Trumka….

    “Trumka and Obama at Corruption, with mouth wide open”-Hobbit folk saying.

    http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2677882/posts

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  18. ReadyKilowatt says:
    9/27/2011 at 5:27 pm

    #4 Maddog 1068 There’s NO WAY IN HELL the union would ever allow that! Of course, they’re all in favor of rolling a tape when they have control over who sees it.

    NYC sounds like a really f*d up place these days. I read this account of getting around town with the UN in town. (Yea, I know, Lew Rockwell is just about Art Bell level crazy at times, Ms Akers seems to be on the ball most of the time.) Reminds me of stories I heard about Washington under the Bush White House, where huge motorcades would fly through town at 50+MPH, all the intersections closed off for a straight shot, because Dear Leader’s time is much more important than anyone else’s.

    There’s a huge frickin’ party going on, and we’re not invited. Of course we are stuck with the bill. That’s the real reason DC is so worried about unemployment. If they don’t get us back to being productive drones soon, they won’t be able to party anymore.

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  19. tcc3 says:
    9/27/2011 at 5:37 pm

    #37 TeaDud

    Organize it then, its your right. You’re the one who keeps saying TeaParty represents and is supported by most Americans. I’m sure you could gather an epic crowd.

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  20. Harry says:
    9/27/2011 at 6:08 pm

    Most Americans are feed up with the Tea baggers, it is just another front for the Greedy Old Party. If you really want to help our country I would go here.
    http://getmoneyout.com/

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