Resolution against police brutality passes 11-1

The Boston Tea Party in convention resolves:

The Boston Tea Party supports the freedom of all people to peaceably assemble and to engage in active political speech; and that

The Boston Tea Party condemns suppression of peaceable assembly and active political speech by police and other government organizations wherever it may occur; and that

The Boston Tea Party in particular and specifically condemns the police riot which occurred outside the presidential candidate debate venue at Hofstra University on October 15th, 2008 -- a police riot in which American veterans were targeted for brutal assault under color of law and in which one such veteran was trampled by a police horse. We call for the arrest, trial and punishment of the conspirators who organized and/or participated in this illegal and unconscionable suppression of political dissent.

Submitted by planetaryjim on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 10:10
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planetaryjim:

Having myself been brutalised by police in 2004 (during the attack, eleven of my bones were broken and my left lung was permanently damaged), I found it very difficult to watch the video. I've tried several times before tonight. Finally got all the way through.

This kind of violence by police against a crowd of protesters is wrong. It is violent, it is aggressive, it is brutal, and it is not worthy of the police force of a free people. These kinds of behaviors are characteristic of the Nazis, the SS, the brown shirts. The police involved should be charged criminally and punished to the maximum extent possible. The attack animals involved should be destroyed. The police force should not be allowed to use horses for crowd control ever again.

11/04/2008 - 01:31