One of the most egregious examples of police brutality during the crushing of the Occupy Wall Street protest was a cop, Lt. John Pike, at the University of California at Davis campus. Video shows this miserable bastard walking in front of about twenty kids who offered no resistance yet he sprayed them for a significant time with some type of pepper spray. (Wiki: UC Davis Pepper Spray)
This loathsome coward was drummed out of the police force in disgrace, right?
In fact he claimed he suffered from PTSD as a result of the incident and was just now awarded $38,000 by Workmen's Compensation because of undocumented death threats, etc received after doing it. You can see from the video that no-one ever laid a finger on him or even tried. He was fired eight months after the incident but UC Davis administration subsequently ruled he acted appropriately.
My family lived in Davis at one time while my ol' Dad taught genetics and did research at UCD. It would have been unimaginable that such behaviour could take place in that lovely, peaceful place but today it's just one example of many across the country in which the police used excessive violence to repress OWS. Obama was in command through all of this and any idea this was taking place without his consent is beyond credibility. He's not just a bad President, he's an absolute disgrace to the U.S. and to the world.
I voted for Obama and I still believe a Republican President would have been even worse. It becomes more and more clear that neither Democrats nor Republicans have an answer except more repression so the only answer left is to create a third political party. Germany has multiple political parties and the country has been governed by a coalition for years. In Germany the political parties moderate the policies of one another whereas in America both are almost exactly the same.
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