Cops Part of the 99%! Who do they really serve and protect.

The following article, from Party for Socialism and Liberation, via the Kasma Project.

This is what they do. This is their job.

The following article was written by a participant in the Oct. 1 Occupy Wall Street march on the Brooklyn Bridge, and among the 700 protesters trapped and arrested there.

The New York Police Department has been making front-page news recently for repeated acts of brutality and repression against the growing protests on Wall Street and occupations around the country.

After the infamous case of pepper-spraying peaceful protesters, a week later the NYPD conducted mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge. Seven hundred marchers, myself included, were trapped by police, arrested, held in flexicuffs for hours in the rain and then given a number of bogus charges and violations.

On my bus and in the cell at 1 Police Plaza, I wound up getting into conversations with people about the police.

There was a clear divide with some arguing that our “brothers and sisters” in the police department are just “regular working people” who don’t make much money, whose pensions are threatened by Wall Street, and who are therefore part of the “99 percent.”

I am annoyed

I am annoyed

by Emma Furbird

Now don’t get me wrong, I am not easily annoyed. True I am overly annoyed at the folks down in Washington but not for the reasons that most folks find these turds to be annoying. I am annoyed at the pesky fly that keeps trying to land on the potato salad and shit all over the place and then everyone at the picnic eats fly shit frosting on the  salad and think it to be very de-lish. I am annoyed that there are so many cars and more drivers coming of age every year and now there is a run on getting more cars in China and India and pretty soon more cars to foul our air and cause a bigger hole in the ozone, yes I am annoyed as there isn’t a fucking thing I can do about it. But you really want to know what has annoyed me in my 25 years of cleaning up after the office slobs? Those slobs, the white middle class of americka that comes into the city every day driving one to a car, fouling up our air and taking all their hard-earned cash back home to their little wifey poo and children in some suburban town.