Video of unprovoked pepper spray attack by cops in Portland in 2002

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Tuesday May 30, 2006 13:05 by T

This video shows protests through the lens of the cop's videocams

This is an important but disturbing video from Portland which shows the way the cops film people in the crowd at demonstrations and go out of their way to zoom in on particular features so as to identify people who are just exercising their democratic rights. They also go out of their way to instruct their camera crews to follow and film anyone who is masked up or covering their face in any way.

The video also contains footage of the infamous protest in Portland USA against a visit of Bush and where the cops pepper sprayed the crowd. It was an unprovoked attack. In the days and weeks following the attack the propaganda arm of the state that is the corporate media & press repeated the lie that it had been provoked by someone throwing a bottle. Indeed a single bottle anyhow thrown against a cop who is in full riot-gear, helmets and shield is hardly justification anyhow for an attack on the whole crowd and beating them with batons as well.

This video also compares and contrasts with the Nazi regime and it is pretty conclusive that while some people realize what is coming down the road, many do not. The corporate police state is here and it would appear it is currently in an information gathering phase of all the various dissidents who it will no doubt torture and murder in due course. This of course is exactly what the Nazis did, because it wasn't just Jews killed, but many Left wing people and communists.

The video can be viewed at http://bravoclan.com/ppmaps/index.html