Showing posts with label police state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police state. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

#occupywallstreet #OWS Wall Street’s Second Occupation: The Rise of the NYPD's Homeland Security State

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NYPD TARU Technical Assistance Response Unit

The Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) is a unit of the New York City Police Department.

TARU provides investigative technical equipment and tactical support to all bureaus within the department, in addition they also provide assistance to other City, State and Federal agencies. The unit also deals with several forms of computer forensics. The unit is based in NYPD headquarters at One Police Plaza.




#occupyworld #occupywallstreet #OWS #NYPD #occupytimessquare #obama #NYPDTARU #TARU #policebrutality #NYC #bloomberg #policestate






Are drones above New York City next as the police militarize against #occupywallstreet protestors?

Their stakeout in Zuccotti Park is geared to extreme acts, suicide bombers, and terrorism, as well as to a conception of protest and opposition as alien and enemy-like. They are trying to herd, lock in, and possibly strangle a phenomenon that bears no relation to any of this. They are, that is, policing the wrong thing, which is why every act of pepper spraying or swing of the truncheon, every aggressive act (as in the recent eviction threat to “clean” the park) blows back on them and only increases the size and coverage of the movement.


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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The Photographer’s Bill of Rights

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• There is no restriction on people taking photographs in public places or any building other than in very exceptional circumstances

• There is no prohibition on photographing frontline uniform staff

• The act of taking a photograph in itself is not usually sufficeint to carry out a stop

• Unless there is a very good reason, people taking photographs should not be stopped

• Officers do not have the power to delete digital images, destroy film or to prevent photography in a public place under either power (sections 43 and 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000)





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