One guy wore a bandana over his face. Oooh, scary.
And another hint… in general, if your bank is invaded by a whole bunch of chanting people, half of whom are recording on video cameras, you can probably assume they’re not planning on recording themselves committing a felony, and there’s no need to panic.
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About Jeremy Bloom
As an eyewitness to this incident, there was more than just deposit slips thrown up in the air. These are the things not captured on their videos: they overturned tables and chairs, they busted up an outside ATM machine, they terrorized customers and employees who were inside the branch, the threw and shattered a glass container that left glass shattered across the floor, they yanked the door open as an employee was trying to lock the doors, and they tore the cables off of two computer keyboards (one at the customer service desk and one at the first personal banker desk). All that was needed was a little spark for this protest to turn violent towards the people in the building.
Oakland_Worker is correct in that there were 4 or 5 people after the police kicked the majority out who tried to start cleaning things up saying we didn’t mean to do this. For some reason they were upset when the police and employees asked them to leave…. Well, if you didn’t mean to do it, then why were they (the ones who said they wanted to help clean up) the first ones who ran into the building and leading the crowd?? The majority of what was on the floor was – shattered glass and hundreds of deposit slips, paper, business cards, and other bank materials. Please don’t comment on things that you didn’t see or experience! You have no clue as to what you are talking about. This was not a “peaceful” protest.
LIndensant asked about the police. The police were outside letting the protestors do what they wanted. Their police cars outside the bank before protestors ever entered. Police were called, but it still took them awhile to get into the banking center. Their only response was: “you should have closed the doors sooner” as if the employees were at fault for working (to support their families) and not being able to shut the doors quickly enough – even though the door was ripped out of one employees hand as they were trying to shut the door. … In addition, the police had to use their batons to keep the door shut because it wouldn’t lock properly after they jerked the doors open. Even after the police got the doors shut, people were still pulling on the doors and hitting the glass.
As someone who might have had sympathy for this movement before, I have no sympathy now. Protesting is one thing. Vandalism is another.
Jeremy Bloom,
It’s time to be intellectually honest. If you call out a right wing blogger for mis-stating facts and trying to “Inflame”, you need to do so with reports of OWS organizers or sympathizers mis-stating facts. I saw video of an OWS organizer on Youtube stating that BOA was having people arrested for trying to close their accounts. Not true, mis-stated fact. I read reports and blogs that Chicago police were “Busting heads”, “Attacking people for excercising their right to free speech” also not true. I was at Grant park one of the nights of the mass arrests and there were no “Heads busted” or police abuses at all.
The NY Times ran 68 or so front page stories and photos of the abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Where are the photos and stories of the aftermath of drone attacks in Pakistan?
You profit off of spinning a story a certain way either financially or emotionally. This may be because you identify with liberal causes such as OWS. Be an honest broker. Why not include another story of an opposing viewpoint for balance? Why title it “Right wing bloggers…” Did you introduce the story as; LEFT WING WEBSITE, RED, GREEN AND BLUE ACCUSES RIGHT WING BLOGGERS OF FREAKING OUT…? I know it may be hard to be objective, but as a journalist that is supposed to be one of the so called sacred oaths.
You’re not the first one or the only one!
The same thing happens with high level professional journalists and elected officials calling Fox news not a real news organization at the same time MSNBC, CNN, ABC and CBS conduct themsleves in the same manner. How do you ever expect us to come together to solve the problems of this country?
You know middle America is just as sick of Wall street and elected officials and their dishonesty. We might as well throw the hard right and the hard left out of America along with Wall Street and current politicians so the rest of us can live in peace and honesty with each other.