thats f@cking incredible! I hope ACLU in Denver is going to be right on this one as blatent excessive force and full repercussions for the offending officer. AS CAN PLAINLY BE SEEN IN THE VIDEO!!!

That woman has a good case for claim against the government for monetary damages probably in the millions, that is what i call unlawful arrest and DENVER POLICE DEPARTMENT should have to pay right out of its budget if she could win a lawsuit for civil damages against the officer and the department. I really hope she does because this is blatent injustice and subjection of her FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO FREE SPEECH!

its just sad to see things like this because it reinforces people to fear those that abuse authority.

and by the way, just where is everyone? this post would have had 20 comments by now had CD not changed around the formats and made people reregister! MIA IS KEM PATRICK and a lot others i havent seen back...

Land of the free? Home of the brave? I think not! You brave, unidentified jackboots need to rethink your place in this country. Welcome to AmeriKKKa!!

The audacity of hope will make the jailbirds sing.

The title to the article is missleading as well, it should just say exactly what it is,

"Peaceful Activist Clubbed Then Snatched By Gestapo Police Forces"

i am quite sure that there is going to be overwhelming public outcry in Denver and all around the States over this unprovoked act of aggression on peaceful citizens. Not to mention the attention this just might recieve in foreign press

Read Naomi Klien The Shock Doctrine.

Fool me once, shame on you...

And yet, my expectation is that, unlike Abraham Ribicoff at the 1968 Chicago convention, the Official Attendees will be nothing but gracious about the host city's hospitality.

This time around, the promgoers' slogan is: "The Whole World Is Watching US!"
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You can't request more than 20 challenges without solving them. Your previous challenges were flushed.

I probably would resent this remark if I knew what the he... 'nuff said.

I am deeply angered by this woman's treatment. We all shiould be! Darth Vaderian tactics smell and taste like SS Troops in the late '30's and early '40's. Who ordered this behavior? Are these United States civil cops? or Blackwater toughs? or just Fascist Pigs? Enough of this!

Denver is in a RED State isn't it?
I should expect the Grandma Millies to be tased and sodomized by night stick. In India and China they are shooting protesters.

DK Blake Typical of the country we have become. The Dems need to ask why peaceful protesters are being brutalized and using their free speech rights. We need our so called "leaders" to speak out as the corporate media will not show examples of treatment by policegestapo we have now. I say EVERYONE should now start wearing pink.

SS tactics have become just as acceptable in this dumbed-down police state as torture.
There is a way to fight back, but if I mention it on here, I'll be "disappeared".

Scratch Open A Cynic And You Will Find An Angry Idealist.

That was hard to watch. A man in riot gear and the uniform of authority belting a woman in a dress with his riot stick and knocking her to the ground. Then coming back to grab her away with the help of at least one other thug. Wow. That was an ugly scene, and I don't see a way for them to successfully spin it.

Obama supporters,

Does he have to support this sort of conduct to get elected?

How about "holding his feet to the fire" right now?

If you can't get him to condemn the violent police state created for his own convention, then how about admitting you will never be able to pressure him into adopting responsible positions?

This is another test that he is failing.

At what point will your hope give way to reality?

Is your only answer to reply how scared you are of McCain?

This is horrifying! I was upset enough to look into contacting the Denver Police Department and then thought it will probably do no good, just one person calling or emailing about the gorilla attacking a small woman. But here's something I found that might make a difference if enough people call or write. I'm sure Code Pink will do something on a larger scale, but if you're feeling as infuriated as I am, this might be a good way to vent. That policeman needs to be thrown off the force and made to go to therapy sessions (or jail!) before he's allowed in public again. By the way, this was taken from the Denver Police website:

WELCOME TO
THE OFFICE OF THE INDEPENDENT MONITOR
FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER

OIM Monitoring of Police Enforcement Activities at the DNC

The Office of the Independent Monitor (OIM) will be actively monitoring Denver Police (DPD) and Sheriff (DSD) law enforcement activities during the course of the upcoming Democratic National Convention (DNC).

The Independent Monitor will coordinate closely with Denver Police and Sheriff Command staff in order to ensure that the OIM is aware of any law enforcement actions taking place during the DNC which involve significant uses of force or significant police actions. OIM monitors will be accompanied by Internal Affairs supervisors or Police or Sheriff Command staff in order to observe law enforcement activities. OIM’s goal is to ensure public confidence in any subsequent investigations or administrative reviews of such activities.

The OIM will accept complaint and commendations regarding law enforcement activities during and after the DNC, on its website, located at www.denvergov.org/oim, and in its office, located on the 12th floor of the Wellington Webb Municipal Building, 201 N. Colfax Blvd., Denver 80202. OIM Complaint/Commendation forms are also available throughout the City, at all DPD District Stations, City Council offices, the Municipal and District Courts, the City & County Building and the City and County Jails. The OIM can also be reached by calling 720-913-3306 or via 311.

Complaints should be filed in a timely manner in order to ensure efficient handling and quality investigations. Commendations for good police work are always welcome.

i recently sent polite emails to several police departments around the country, asking if their candidates were required to undergo psychiatric evaluation before being hired. it's been three weeks now, and so far i have gotten no responses.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy

Freedom in the US means the freedom to be violently assaulted by police when you voice an opinion unpopular with the state.

Sue sue sue. Both the city and the individuals involved.

Joe

The woman appears to have been at right angle to the vehicle, not in front of it, thus not impeding it's path. I don't know what the police policy is but there was no verbal engagement by the officer to request space.

The woman retained civil speech, was engaged in simple description, witnessing to another what she had seen. "There was a gentleman being arrested..."

To honor her witness it is important to remain civil and exercise support of civil channels.

Thank you Skyler for the information to contact the Denver police.

I called the number in the comments. I left my name and phone number. I said that I am watching a video of a police officer with a night stick in both hands knock a small woman to the ground. I said I want a call back as to why the police of this country are acting in this manner. I was angry, outraged, I left my name and phone number twice.

They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The cop is a character right out of Jack London's IRON HEEL.
Hoa binh

When will We the People finally have enough? Have we become so complacent that nothing moves us to rebellion?

Please phone and fax the police chiefs' office, let them hear your outrage, tie up the phone and run the fax machine out of paper. It is being answered by a secretary, so let's keep her really busy:

Denver Police Chief
1331 Cherokee Street, Denver, CO 80204

(720) 913-6527
(720) 913-7029 (fax)

Email for the Citizen Oversight Board of the Denver Police: cob@ci.denver.co.us

Open letter to the Citizen Oversight Board:

I wish to express my gratitude to the members of the OIB and recognize the value of your service.

The link below is a moving image that you have undoubtedly already seen:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/videos/detail/police-use-force/

It is clear that peaceful demonstrators are challenging assertions that rights to freedom of speech are to be subjected to limitation based on fear of and by others.

Noted in the segment is that the woman was not positioned to impede the police vehicle. Her speech was civil, her concern evident, "A gentleman was being arrested...", she was witnessing to others who were clearly peaceable and there to themselves witness and record the exercise of freedom of speech. This after she had been knocked to the ground by a police officer.

The dilema of our sacred right to freedom of speech, to protest the imposition of limitation to that right in the fearful policy mandate of caged dissent, is shown in this segment to be a serious matter.

Overwhelming force even if predicated on a disagreement regarding city policy and the individual exercise of freedom of speech cannot and should not be permitted to devolve into police action as witnessed.

I respectfully submit that the police unit being used in the manner exhibited in this instance be considered in another light. Our civil employees on police forces need to be protecting, accompanying and serving the freedom of speech. For city policy to be predicated on distancing of dissent out of fear of violence is shown to precipitate precisely that violence. That violence was not committed by a peaceful demonstrator, but by an officer of the law.

I urge you, as citizens as am I, to consider the implications to the well being of civil society in the use of overwhelming force implicit in a foregone mandate that freedom of speech must be distanced and caged when it is the responsibility of citizens to peacefully dissent when there is, in a democracy, government placement of limitation on that freedom.

Great faith is placed in your collective capacity for discernment and recognition of the necessity to firmly hold the social contract above the pressures of fear that are repeatedly broadcast in our civil society today. I know of no instance in history where denial of a Constitutional right has resulted in the strengthening of that Constitutional right.

Whenever I see police beating up protesters the first thing that comes to mind - These are probably the same people that would give support to a police strike. At least it used to be that way.

Bring America Back !!!!

CodePink is well known as Anti=War and the Denver Jackboots just had to be briefed on the protests & demonstrations !

Here in PSA==Police State America, we all know, and the poor Codepink lady was heard whispering to the Pigfaces==
Don't Taze Me Bro===but, what she forgot to tell them was:
Don't jackclub me, Bro and Don't grab and kidnap me, Bro !!! Those were the magic words and none of that would have happened to her

***surely, then the Brainless Gestapo Swat Boys would have just left her alone, and they could've all met at Duncan Donuts for a well-deserved snack !

jam the phones and fax:

Denver Police Chief
1331 Cherokee Street, Denver, CO 80204

(720) 913-6527
(720) 913-7029 (fax)

Bring America Back !!!!

**and while I contemplate this==At the same time the Denver Jackboots were knocking down this defenseless woman, US REP Dennis Kucinich was inside the Pepsi Center screaming at the top of his voice==at least 10 times:
WAKE UP AMERICA WAKE UP AMERICA WAKE UP AMERICA

REP KUCINICH IS FROM OHIO---where some of us Progs lived thru another Jackboot exercise of Oppression

*that was KENT STATE=====REMEMBER KENT STATE

AND SO THE DENVER POLICE FORCE MUST BE REAL PROUD OF
THEIR BOYS IN BLACK, TODAY, DENVER'S FINEST !!!!

WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FAaaaaar LEFT And then people wonder why some individuals do not like cops. Especially bad ass ones like the ones that worked the lady over. A VERY SAD SITUATION IN OUR COUNTRY.

Turn Your Anger Into Something Positive.

http://www.cindyforcongress.com

Switch From Democrat to Green.

http://www.gp.org

What the fück has happened to the USA?

"I am... against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents." --Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1799. ME 10:78

Charming - Kent State and Chicago all over again. Have we learned nothing? It would seem we have not.

Your SS police at work.

I've left a message on the Chief's phone just now.
720 913-6527 There's still room in his voicemail box! We MUST hold him & his clearly scared senseless Officer accountable!

The war supporters are pampered and protected, while the peaceful people who are against the war are beaten up and then arrested.

Don't blame the police, don't even blame the "Dem" Party (aka Complicit Party), blame also the American Sheeple who continue to support this system, including supporting Obama.

Shame on you all.

That pig could easily be one of our "American Heroes" returned back from training in Iraq. And the lady from Code Pink appeared to be none other than Medea Benjamin.

From 1st hand experience, The DPD is filth.

They tried to hang a false charge on me and would not look at anything exonerating.

I left with my family in the night. To escape Nazis.

Denver is a dead, dirty, ugly town, and their scummy cops reflect this.

Justice=Just Us. For us and them as well.

The assault was the action of a bully

It will be allowed because: she's a woman, she's wearing pink, she's anti-war, therefore she's an easy target

Bullies assault unarmed physically smaller persons.

He's probably practiced in the art of assaulting women, including members of his own family.

paulj1938 August 27th, 2008 7:33 pm
"The next time a cop tells the dizzy bitch to move she will. The code-pink crowd are a bunch of wackos anyway."

You are a misogynistic asshole. How is this woman a "dizzy bitch?" I suppose in what is now fascist America, it is perfectly acceptable to beat up unarmed protestors. The cop is a fascistic bully and should be severly reprimanded.
But of course, he won't be.

The only WACKO is you.

Modern equivalent of self-flagellation. What the hell is the point in protest? Why don't progressives organize positive rallies, or go rural (like Burning Man) and organize mass populist events? All of the anti-war messages are lost because of the staging/context of the protest. They aren't dealing with ordinary city police, or ordinary public rally security -- they picked one of the most paranoid/secure events to get their point across. Bad timing, plain and simple.

Other movements, religious, cultural, professional organizations, etc. organize large seminars, teach-ins, dialogs, etc. That is where progressives and populists should be aiming their efforts. Let's drop the self-flagellation bullshit already.

A century ago you might argue differently. Before the era of mass communications, it could well be that many politicians honestly didn't know how much bile their electorate had, and a protest was the only way of getting that across. But any politician who can't read the blogs, citizen journalists, etc. is a lost cause. It's obvious how much we don't like their policies and getting knocked down by a cop doesn't drive that point home any more clearly. What a stupid example of non-leadership. A genuine leader would organize an independent progressive-populist political event NOT during a Republicrat convention, obtain proper permits, even hire some off-duty cops for extra security.

That cop should be locked up. But I bet he's proud of what he did--beating up a small, unarmed woman just because he could get away with it. What a manly man!

Lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit.

Eventually, it will not be cost effective to hire 'psychologically troubled' young men. Don't we see this in *every* city ? Like the NYC video of the ex-football cop 'tackling' a bicycle protester that was trying to get out of his way... and the Phoenix cop posted on YouTube beating up a TV reporter.

The violent cops all have the same 'dead eyes' and 'ex-high-school athlete that hates his life' look. And those protesters/reporters/pedestrians are just *so* annoying and probably terrorist sympathizers or drug dealers or pedophiles... whack.

This crap used to go on all the time: but *now* there are plenty of small, concealed digital cameras with video function. Same thing that got them in trouble in Abu Graib. The 'Powers that Be' can't just threaten ABC, CBS, NBC, Time and Newsweek to squash a story anymore, like the good old days.

Psychotic cops, psychotic soldiers, psychotic prison guards: they are few, we are many.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. - Herodotus

Alicia is out of jail after posting a $500+ bond. She will probably have to defend herself against the charges against her before she can go after the people who abused her. This is Amerika, after all.

If you would like to help Alicia, you could start by sending your observations, and your outrage to Richard.Rosenthal@denvergov.org

Also, view the youtube video often. Let's take that sucker viral!