Guardian Reports On Brooklyn Bridge Video Showing Police Violence Then It Disappears
A video showing NYPD violence on the Brooklyn Bridge, referenced in at least two articles by the Guardian, has disappeared from YouTube.
The Guardian newspaper has done two articles on the Brooklyn Bridge arrests.
Both articles reference a YouTube video which has now been removed from YouTube but reported to show inappropriate police action.
Perhaps one of my readers has a copy or can help find the original author to locate the video. We can only speculate why a user would remove a video after a major news paper references it as showing evidence of police brutality.
The first guardian article reports the following on the video.
Occupy Wall Street – were you arrested on Brooklyn Bridge?
Police arrested more than 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters on Brooklyn Bridge in New York on Saturday. Were you one of them? We want to hear from you
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It seems the NYPD were acutely aware of the potential for bad publicity if scenes turned ugly. In this video, an officer can be seen warning another officer about his conduct. The first officer appears to react angrily to a confrontation with protesters – he is pulled back and apparently given advice about his conduct by a finger-wagging colleague, as protesters chant: “The whole world is watching!”
Footage on YouTube shows protesters being arrested[...]
posted on October 2, 2011 03:27 PM Read more
The second article elaborates further.
Occupy Wall Street protest: NYPD accused of heavy-handed tactics
Force criticised by protesters, who claim they were deliberately led on to road before being penned in and arrested
The New York police department has come under criticism for heavy-handed tactics during the Occupy Wall Street march over Brooklyn bridge, after more than 700 protesters were held for several hours.
Activists, as well as commentators following the protest against inequality and corporate excess, claim the response of the city’s police force to the peaceful event was vastly out of proportion. Almost 1,000 people have been arrested in two weeks – substantially more than the number of financiers who led the world into the 2008 economic meltdown.
As Salman Rushdie put it in a tweet: “The world’s economy has been wrecked by these rapacious traders. Yet it is the protesters who are jailed.”
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Other participants suggested the confluence of so many on the road was a misunderstanding. Robert Cammiso, 48, told the Associated Press: “We were supposed to go up the pedestrian roadway. There was a huge funnel, a bottleneck, and we couldn’t fit. People jumped from the walkway on to the roadway. We thought the roadway was open to us.”
The NYPD was accused of over-weening behaviour towards the protesters once they were “kettled” on the bridge. Video footage showed police grappling with protesters and strong-arming them away, despite no apparent signs of violence.
The same footage shows the arrest of a young woman or girl wearing a cloth hat. Her age is not clear – she could be as young as 13 or as old as 20 – but the crowd clearly thought she was a child and chanted: “Shame, shame, shame.”
Others chanted: “You can’t arrest an idea” and “Let us out, let us out.”
The Battle of Brooklyn Bridge, as some dubbed it, came as protests begun in Manhattan spread across America. There were smaller but substantial demonstrations over the weekend in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Denver, Washington and several other cities. In New York, most of those arrested were released early on Sunday with a citation for disorderly conduct. Brooklyn bridge was reopened by late evening, but the dramatic scenes there and the prevailing feeling that the police action was excessive are only likely to fuel the demonstrations as they carry on this week.
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posted on October 2, 2011 09:34 AM Read more
The YouTube video, which has actually been embedded into the Guardian article, has now been removed.
Going to the direct page for the video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1tCYAEDl6g, you see this.
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