Most of the roughly 300 Occupy L.A. protesters were released from jail by Friday evening, with some immediately speaking out on the police raid that cleared their camp.
One speaker suggested that some of those arrested might need therapy. Several said they felt traumatized after witnessing police use nonlethal force and being forced to wait for hours in zip-tie handcuffs. Some displayed cuts on their wrists from the handcuffs. Others complained that they were forced to urinate in bags on the bus as they were transported to jails.
One speaker urged others to document any complaints. “Make note of every single violation of human rights,” she told those assembled…
The reek of urine and unwashed bodies hung over the former Occupy Los Angeles camp Wednesday as masked sanitation workers hauled away 25 tons of debris from the barren lawns around City Hall.
Collapsed and overturned tents, scattered bedding, paperback books, bicycles, shoes, food and other belongings were tossed by shovel or pitchfork into trash trucks after a small army of police peacefully swarmed the nearly two-month encampment. City officials who had tolerated the economic protest for weeks had finally declared the area a health and safety hazard earlier in the week…
…”It’s so contaminated, it doesn’t even make sense to sort it out,” said Jose “Pepe” Garcia, 49, superintendent of the city’s north central sanitation district.
A dozen city sanitation workers were suited up in white coveralls, gloves and boots after reports that there might be a lice or flea infestation, Garcia said.
Sanitation workers had been hauling away as much as 2 tons of trash a day from the site, but hygiene remained a problem despite rows of portable toilets, he said. Plastic gallon bottles of urine and smaller bottles were set aside for special disposal…
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Tell them to hitch hike to balmy Olympia and meet up with a Mr. Yubin Frezinyerbalzoff. He’s the guy in charge of lodging at Soggy Acres Resort.
These fucking people actually walk amongst us.
OMG.
Ya gotta keep in mind that their arrest was in all likelihood their first encounter with real world consequence. Unnerving, sure.
Trauma, not so much.
On the plus side: Urinating in plastic bags on the bus was probably akin to positive evolution in their whole world of the ‘
people’sproletariat’s plumbing’ problem.Next phase: Flushing toilets!
Flushing toilets are so the man. Man.
Somebody needs to ask City Hall (L.A.) in a loud voice, “Who are you sending the cleanup bill to?”.
Chances are, though, that it’ll be “the city taxpayers”.
As for the occupoopers’ complaints: cue the World’s Smallest Violin.
Perhaps they won’t be so anxious next time to declare, “I want to be arrested”.
Piss on them.
They wouldn’t notice.
Oh. Yeah. I see what you mean.
[insert recording of roars of laughter from every other prisoner in the LACounty jail]
You think that’s traumatic, Binky?
You just wait for the Youtopia you’re creating…
I can almost see myself caring that someone who Will Not Shut Up about how much harm they want to do to me got a boo-boo.
*Almost.*
Now, help me out here ….
300 Occupoopers are released from jail and (apparently) just sent away to do whatever their little hearts desire.
Meanwhile, a couple hundred OTHER PEOPLE are cleaning up the mess the poopers left behind.
Is there a disconnect here, or am I missing something?
In a coupla years, I am gonna axe this question, “What are the OCCUPYSnots?”
I figure only headmissey & Claire will have a clue…..
I need a t-shirt with that Marvin graphic on it.