WTF!? Protestors lying in street have large tent placed over them and gassed(?)

[tex-wyo-dem]

#OccupyHouston: Watch this video from about 1:20 mark. Protestors are lieing in street arms linked and unmoving when a large tent is placed over them and gas canisters are placed in where the ground meets the tent wall. A fireman then comes over and opens the gas canister and after a few seconds removes it.

From the video it appears the protestors were gassed followed by police entering the tent and arresting them...

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19108308

[rhett o rick]

1. This is terrorism plain and simple. nm

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Download the video. How do you download uStream video?

[tex-wyo-dem]

3. I'm not sure...it's an embedded video and I've never...

been able to figure out how to save to hardrive.

There's gotta be a way, though.

[Fumesucker]

21. You could always use Cam Studio and just record your screen and audio..

It ' s free and works pretty well..

http://camstudio.org/

[Huey P. Long]

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[Fire Walk With Me]

4. WTF WTF WTF, this makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

[tex-wyo-dem]

5. I've seen a couple of ppl on twitter say that the tanks were to inflate the tent...

I call BS. The tent was sturdy enough to be carried by firemen over their heads and placed on the ground.

Not to mention, WTF is the tent for anyway (i.e. what are they hiding?). Obviously something they didn't want the protest crowd to see.

[Scuba]

10. Those people are liars. n/t

[Crabby Appleton]

16. The tank was carried over attached to the tent

the firefighter removed it, It's a compressed air tank from a Scott SCBA Air-pak, more commonly seen on the back of a firefighter.

[tex-wyo-dem]

20. But why would you need to inflate the tent?

The tent doesn't look particularly air tight, so would lose inflation pretty quickly.

But if one were to pump a noxious gas in there, well that's another story.

And why use the tent at all unless you are trying to hide something?

[tammywammy]

24. If you listen to the video

They even say "it's an inflatable structure, which is what that was for".

[Mnemosyne]

6. WTF, indeed! Trying to hide something, officers? Sickening. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

7. New LBN thread posted by ScreamingMeemie:

Occupy Houston protesters arrested for blocking East Loop entrance ramp
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141477

[Scuba]

8. When will our liberal Democratic President address the nation on this topic?

[gratuitous]

18. He doesn't need to

He's got an approval rating from liberal Democrats of, like, 139% or so.

[Scuba]

19. So politics is all that matters to him?

[butterfly77]

9. Kicked...

[hedgehog]

11. There's an article in LBN that says the protesters used pipes to chain themselves together -

the pipes were being cut with saws and the tent was put up to contain any sparks.

[Capitalocracy]

12. Sparks, is that what they're calling video cameras these days?

I'm a bit behind the times with all these new doohickies and thingamajiggers.

[tammywammy]

23. Yes, Houston (and Texas) is in the middle of an awful drought

Considering the wildfires that have already devastated areas of the state, preventing sparks from flying into the dry grass would be very important.

http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/DM_state.htm?TX,S

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. They were warned.

occupytheport WC Port Shut Down
Tent placed over prone protesters at #occupyhouston and then they were gassed. The blockade is hereby extended.

[sufrommich]

14. Althought the tents seemed designed to frighten

and intimidate people,which is bad enough, it doesn't do the movement any good to exaggerate. It's pretty obvious from watching the video that nobody was gassed.

[tex-wyo-dem]

22. Thanks for the clarification/correction...

I didn't realize they had chained themselves to pipes and the pipes were being cut.

The whole thing does look pretty sinister fromt he video and it's hard not to be suspicious these days .

[SidDithers]

28. There's no time limit on edit, if you wanted to update your OP...

to make it more accurate.

Sid

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. gassing comment retracted by originator

occupytheport WC Port Shut Down
#d12 no gassing in Houston. We deeply apologize.

[hootinholler]

25. At best they were hiding the actual arrest

At worst they were sedating the protestors?

[Fire Walk With Me]

27. Yeah, it's been bad enough with the police in full view.

What the hell are they going to do to protesters when they know they cannot be recorded?

That I have to say this, in the United States of America...is boggling.

[tex-wyo-dem]

26. Photos from local Houston station of the protests:

Photos: 'Occupy' protesters block ramp

http://www.khou.com/community/slideshows/Photos-Occupy-Houston-protesters-135461628.html