Very impressive letter. I apologize if this has already been posted. 2nd letter to police.
<After examining footage and speaking with members of your police organization, it has come to our attention that you were the ranking officer at our march yesterday that began at Bank of America Plaza. While we would normally expect a field commander to distance himself from the action to keep from being emotionally compromised, we’ve seen a lot of footage of you personally handling protesters. It is for this reason that we address this open letter for the Dallas Police Department, to you.
First, we’d like to state a few facts for you. We are not a violent revolution; we are trying to prevent one. Yesterday, Occupy Dallas took part in a nation-wide protest aimed at the multinational for-profit banks who have received billions in Government bailouts at the taxpayer’s expense. These banks crashed our economy, refused to take responsibility and have yet to be held accountable for their actions. As the American economy suffered, these banks made ridiculous amounts of money through unethical fees. According to CUNA, over 650,000 new accounts have been opened at credit unions across the country. A sum total of $4.5 Billion dollars has been moved from the large corporate banks into non-profit credit unions and community banks. We are affecting change and will continue to do so.
To quote the General Assembly of New York City, “We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice and oppression over equality, run our government. We have assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.” We are constitutionally granted this right. We will relentlessly defend our right to do so in the streets and in the courts, with or without tents. Even if our group is disrupted by violent police intervention, we will not cease to exercise our right to peaceably assemble.
Yesterday, several officers under your command chose to aggressively instigate violence with our group. We have video footage of protesters being pulled from a public side walk and thrown down onto the street. An officer with a riot shield mounted the curb and began slamming into protesters. Forced to the ground and surrounded by half a dozen officers, protesters were pepper sprayed by a female officer holding a camera. She is visible in the photograph above this letter on our website, holding her pepperspray and camera above protesters on the ground.>
Much more at link, as well as video:
http://occupydallas.org/letter-police-0
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