from inthesetimes.......
"It's become something of a cliché to point out the fact that if police had treated the Tea Party protesters as they're currently handling Occupy Wall Street demonstrators, the nation would have reacted somewhat differently to the crackdown.
For example, Glenn Beck would have clawed out his eyes on national television, screaming about all kinds of violations to the Constitution, and Congressional hearings would have run 'round-the-clock on Fox News.
If I explained to you that not one, or two, but around seven (probably more) protesters have been mowed over by vehicles during protests, and the police let the drivers go without citations, you could probably easily guess during which protests those public safety lapses occurred. Of course, in some of these instances, OWS protesters were actually hit by police themselves, which explains, but does not excuse, why there weren't immediate ramifications for those respective officers"............READ MORE
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