Rev.Lennox Yearwood attacked, arrested, and hospitalized

[goodhue]

Run time: 07:34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiradcejA6o   Posted on YouTube: September 10, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 10, 2007 By DU Member: goodhue Views on DU: 2409

 
While Betrayus Lies . . .

[opihimoimoi]

1. Amazing we still have these incidents in these times...SAD

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[tnlefty]

3. Rec'd and I'm still biting my tongue in an effort not to post

anything that I might be called on the carpet for. Fuckin' brown shirts in new black shirts....meet the new boss. :mad: :mad:

[goodhue]

4. yes, the police conduct is pretty ridiculous

I wish I was surprised.

[ooglymoogly]

19. Rant; The constabulary is expanding at an ever increasing rate

to control crime that they for the most part create and instigate. They are being and have been greatly expanded at our expense to protect the hierarchy and to play the rest of us however it suits to expand that power over the 70 percent of Americans who appose their unconstitutional policies of never ending wars and profiteering and the 4th estate is in their pockets. A hearing?....what a joke. More like a deafening, a blinding, and a travesty. We have been played since the Reaganazi period and the totally unconstitutional drug wars. We are now seeing the consequences of letting soccer moms and born agins define our Stepford wives future of poverty and diminishing freedoms. As far as I am concerned the 30% of dumb Murkins who can be fooled all the time can go fuck themselves or be fluted off the proverbial cliff by the snake oil and dead parrot salesmen in charge...but they can't take the rest of us with them. -end rant-

[EnricoFermi]

5. Interesting comments:

apparently the Capitol Police decided to limit the number of "peace people" into the hearing at 7, according to others there at the time. They stopped Rev. Yearwood from entering the room on that pretext. It need to be very clearly stated that the precipitating event was not ANY action by Rev. Yearwood but the initial decision to deny access to the hearing room based on police identifying individuals as "peace people".

(update) Rev. Yearwood is being charged with "assaulting a police officer" and will be arraigned tomorrow morning. from edgery at dkos

[superkia]

6. HE assaulted THEM? I fear that day when its every in the streets.

[MelissaB]

8. Holy shit!

:grr:

[iaviate1]

12. I didn't see him raise a hand or foot.

I just saw him try to shrug them off and then they tackled him. I'd do the same thing as the Rev. when surrounded by all those cops.

[Sam Ervin jret]

13. "PEACE PEOPLE" Those would be the one's without the "I kill for BUSH" buttons? What the ^&%$

That would be called discrimination. To separate people on the basis of political ideology. I would sue for civil rights discrimination on that basis if I felt I was not let in for that reason. I would also put it on mt PERSONAL resume. I AM A PEACE PERSON. AGAIN I ASK. WHAT THE &&%$ ?

[bbinacan]

7. So did the Rev have a broken leg?

the video ends before that is cleared up.

[Pretty_in_CodePink]

16. Last I heard he was having his ankle xrayed n/t

[goodhue]

9. more video here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwKpr1CEQ00

[goodhue]

18. this video picks up shortly after where the other left off

kind of interesting to watch as well

[NOLALady]

10. I just had a serious flashback

to Dr M L King. This is the kind of s**t that he had to endure. Damn! How long?

[BeHereNow]

11. Is it Fascism yet?

Incredible.
BHN

[bdamomma]

14. disgraceful, that we are at this point again in our lives

these cops are no better than brownshirts doing Hitler's sick deeds. Pretty soon, it will not be one person, it will hopefully be many who will resist.

[Pretty_in_CodePink]

15. First hand account I received from one of the 7 who went in

What a fabulous start in D.C. CODEPINK (Desiree, Barbara, Lelsie A.
Medea B. Mona, Arizona Liz and myself) IVAW, Col. Wright, David
Swanson and others waited almost four hours this morning to go into
the Petreaus Report meeting. CODEPINK co-founder Gael Murphy was
refused entrance and tried in vane to get in the room. One of the
Capitol officers had his panties in a wad and decided only 7 of us
could go in. Even Medea couldn't change his sorry mind. Cindy
Sheehan and her sister DeDe arrived about 30 minutes before the
hearing started and were refused entrance. The up-tight cop actually
gave us little blue pieces of paper with numbers on them 1-7. CPer
Debby gave up her number so Col. Wright could get in. In the mean
time, The Honorable Rev. Yearwood had been in line with us for about
2 hours. Just as we started to go in he was pulled from the line
for "cutting in" - it's sooooooooooo high school.
NOTE: Cindy, DeDe and Rev. Yearwood were arrested, in the hall, for
absolutely nothing more than raising their voices. Unfortunately
Rev. Yearwood had pissed off the "hallway cop" who was bothering us
earlier and, after a little posturing he was thrown to the floor, 8
cops jumped on him and he is in the hospital getting x-rayed for a
broken ankle.
Back to the hearing, when we got into the hearing we were warned
immediately to sit still, no standing, no signs, no banners blah,
blah, blah. Deseriee decided she wasn't going to sit down.
The "hallway" cop was hovering, asking her to sit down. She refused,
he grabbed her and she started yelling "WAR CRIMINAL, WAR CRIMINAL,
WAR CRIMINAL" at the top of her lungs as he drug her from the room.
First one arrested! Not long after that, when Petraeus was just
absolutely lying, Leslie A. stood up and said "that's not true.
That's a lie. I've been to Iran. The people are lovely". She was
escorted out (they didn't arrest her???).
Let me note here that we had planned to upset the meeting, one at a
time, so we were each waiting for our cue.
About this time Ray McGovern yells "SWEAR HIM IN". The chair asked
him to leave, he refused for a time but was escorted out. We
continued to listen to the "report" just shaking our heads at the
lies. I heard Gen. P. mention Iran 4-5 times and was starting to get
a little sick of him.
Medea, behind me start yelling "General Petraeus, the American people
don't believe you any more....." and was taken away. Today is
Medea's birthday and she will surely spend the night in jail. Then,
Mona started yelling "???? (I couldn't hear what she said because the
whole place started standing up to see what was going on.)
Keep in mind that by this time we had been warned by the chair to be
quiet. Duncan Hunter was besides himself with wanting to get us
kicked out. He didn't realize his mike was on and was saying
something like "we need to get them out of here - that group in the
back - CODEPINK - they are going to keep interrupting the
meeting....." someone came and shut off his mike.
So, Mona is yelling and I had my cue. I stood on my chair and
started yelling "General Petreaus, you're just like Colin Powell,
you're ruining our military, you're going to bankrupt our country,
you've betrayed military families, you'll go down in history, just
like Colin Powell". At this point the police are grabbing Mona and
she decides to resist. She said "don't touch me, NO, NO, No, let go
of me, I'm 70 years old.....No, No.....". I jumped off of my chair
and said "leave her alone" and saw an opportunity to walk out. An
officer got behind me. Mona is still hysterical as I'm being
escorted from the hearing. Within minutes, and after a stern warning
and threat of prosecution, Arizona Liz stood up to say her piece
(again, I couldn't hear her 'cuz I was out the door by this time).
When we got in the hallway the officer behind me realized he needed
to help the other cops with Mona. He told four officers in the hall
to "hold her (me) and turned around to go help with Mona. I don't
think the hallway cops heard him. As I walked toward them it was
obvious that only one of them was coming to me. I saw my opportunity
and started to walk, really, really fast. I passed the cops, said hi
to Tiffany Burns (dear friend, Cindy Sheehan's personal assistant -
who got arrested shortly thereafter) and kept on walking. I passed a
group of cameras in the hall, turned the corner and pressed the
elevator button. About this time an officer was coming up the
stairs, not knowing what was going on, and said "use the stairs, it's
faster!!!!!".
You never saw a pink cape fly down the hall and stairways so fast. I
kept myself from running and within minutes was out the door, headed
home.
The coolest part is that all of this made it onto the C-Span. It's
great because they had a 45 second delay (just for this kind of
stuff) and it made it anyway. Cactus Pat just called to say Wolf
Blitzer started The Situation Room with a clip and I am attaching the
MSNBC video for your enjoyment.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20689394/

[ooglymoogly]

17. self delete wrong place.

[goodhue]

20. Amy Goodman interviews Rev. Yearwood about incident . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1799431&mesg_id=1799431

[AX10]

21. Just a bunch of willing mules of the state.