Did Police Smash Occupy Wall Street Laptops? Isaac Wilder, an active member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, reportedly snapped photos of destroyed laptops confiscated from protesters during NYPD raids Nov. 17.
Last week we wrote about Wilder's Free Network Foundation, which is bringing Internet connectivity to the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park. The organization's equipment, along with the belongings of hundreds of protesters, were taken by sanitation workers during last week's raid. Occupy Oakland: footage shows police beating 'peaceful' Iraq war veteran. Video footage has emerged of a police officer beating an Iraq war veteran so hard that he suffered a ruptured spleen in an apparently unprovoked incident at a recent Occupy protest in California.
The footage, which has been shared with the Guardian, shows Kayvan Sabehgi standing in front of a police line on the night of Occupy Oakland's general strike on 2 November, when he is set upon by an officer. He does not appear to be posing any threat, nor does he attempt to resist, yet he is hit numerous times by an officer clad in riot gear who appears determined to beat him to the ground. Sabehgi, 32, an Oakland resident and former marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has since undergone surgery on his spleen. He says it took hours for him to be taken to hospital, despite complaining of severe pain. Police have told the Guardian they are investigating the incident. Peaceful Protesters Pepper sprayed 11/18/11. UC Davis Spray Sitting Protestors.