What It's Like When the NYPD Raids Your Apartment At Dawn-- Because Your Roommate is in Occupy

I must say this kinda stuff really scares me. There is no reason these types of measures should be taken for people exercising their 1st amendment right.

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“At around six-fifteen I was woken up. I sleep in a lofted bed, and there's a police officer standing in my bedroom shining a flashlight in my face. He woke me up and said ‘get down in the living room," he said. Remer dressed, grabbed his ID as requested, and joined his housemates in the living room.

"We have a little poster on our bridge that said 'Strike, May 1st.' And they said 'see, look! There’s a strike poster' in passing," said Remer. While they questioned Dempster, “They spent five minutes asking me if I was involved in any [May Day] activities, if I had any plans."

So because of a poster 6 cops raided their apartment and kept claiming it was because of a warrant for an open container. Yea seems legit... NOT.

And yet throughout it all, the officers couldn't acknowledge that they were there for anything more than a trivial violation. “They sort of had to keep up the idea that they had brought six cops to deal with an open container. I don’t know what they were hoping to find," Remer said.

I asked Remer if this experience, which personally seemed horrifying to me, was frightening to him. “It was--I actually found myself shivering involuntarily," he said. " Which is part of the reason we were sort of so out of it, we didnt realize until they were long gone--'wait did anyone let them in? They must have busted down the door.'”

It seems that using warrant squads to monitor protesters is becoming an increasing tactic.

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How can people stand up to this tyranny? I just don't have the answers and the only quote that comes to mind is that of JFK. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." One of the last real presidents that our country had. Any thoughts or opinions on this?

Originally posted by stigup

How can people stand up to this tyranny? I just don't have the answers and the only quote that comes to mind is that of JFK. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." One of the last real presidents that our country had. Any thoughts or opinions on this?

I would of loved that opportunity.

Get all their badge numbers and a copy of the warrant issued.

I doubt they would even have a warrant, so I would take them to court for damages and infringement on our basic rights.

This is conditioning pure and simple.

This is so people will read this and think well it didn't happen to me so it's okay.

These raids will only get worse from here on out and be more frequent.

,and the Land of the Free.

What a joke.

This is literally making me sick. When will people wake up! This could have easily happened to either one of you if you joined a cause you believed to be in the best interest of the country. I don't care what the cause is. I don't care if your cause is to blow up the White House. Not because I agree with such a heinous thing, but because YOU ARE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN and I want you to have your rights just as much as I want mine? Why? Because if I am willing to give up YOUR rights so I can feel safe, then I must also be willing to give up my own so others can feel safe.

That would mean we would all lose our rights because we all have different reasons for feeling unsafe. This is why it is MOST IMPORTANT to protect the rights of those you disagree with than your own.

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In the second link I posted the guy was taken into custody and he looked at the badge and found it was part of the intelligence divison. For some reason the link isn't working correctly.

He noticed the officer’s badge number. WNYC traced that number to a detective within the NYPD's Intelligence Division. A sergeant who signed the property voucher form issued to Carrié for his confiscated property identified himself on the document as another member of the Intelligence Division.

fixed it.. Also the warrant was for someone with the same name, but different address and birthday. Yet he still has to go to trial and fight it.

Get over it already. You have no rights. What you do have are privileges and that is all.

You could have had rights, freedom. You just never fought for it so it was all taken away.

Besides, you never really wanted rights, freedom anyways. Otherwise you would have taken them back or like me left that country.

A warrant for an open container?

Whoever signed off on that warrant should be fired.

Whoever requested that warrant should be ashamed and ridiculed for the rest of their life.

I just love how preach around the world democracy but when it comes to our civil rights,they make laws so we cant and send the cops,to try an scare us from doing anything that goes against the staus quo.how I hate hipocracy heres a video that someone recomended for me on youtube pretty cool one,checkit out.

There were several of these raids in New York the week prior to the May Day marches. I can only imagine what's going to happen to Occupiers in Chicago leading up to the NATO summit. For all those chuckling or thinking this is a good thing, your turn to be treated like dog poo will come.

Originally posted by Kali74
For all those chuckling or thinking this is a good thing, your turn to be treated like dog poo will come.

While I don't necessarily agree with your delivery (seriously, absolutely no offense intended ), I certainly agree with your sentiment.

It reminds me of the poem:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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That's exactly it lol.
I'm angry though so dog poo it is

I may not agree with everything Occupy does, but I do support their right to protest. The behavior of the police lately has been out of control. Those cops from the live feeds in Oakland are like something straight out of Mad Max.

“They spent five minutes asking me if I was involved in any [May Day] activities, if I had any plans.

"I plead the fifth." or "I want a lawyer."

The only thing you ever say to a cop. Ever. It used to be their job to protect and serve; not anymore. Now it's their job to provide criminals to help with prison profits, to keep their funding alive, and help with certain city politician's "tough on crime" records.

For the most part, they're just following orders and trying to put food on the table.

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"I plead the fifth." or "I want a lawyer."

Exactly what my daddy taught me growing up. He was telling me that by late 80s and early 90s. I believe he saw what was happening. Sad how we used to look up to law as heroes and something you wanted to be when you grew up, to what they have become. I was told never to talk to a cop because they will always use it
against you. Were there really any day past when they stood up for the people and "protected and served"?

The situation in the States reminds me of a Star Trek episode where the Holo deck starts to malfunction and bits of tech start appearing in the rock formations and such. Ron Paul exposed a lot when he showed how blatant the Media black out was around his campaign and progress. The failed economy starting to sink in is another. As was the whole"Yes we can" BS. He was going to make such a difference; bring the troops home, level the playing field, etc. At what point will the people figure out their so called constitution is a relic and a faded memory?
And why you folks didn't raise bloody hell over that Patriot Act, I'll never know. They didn't even read it did they?
I love the smell of military dictatorships in the morning.

someone could be having a heart attack and NYPD will come to show their frowning mean faces and raid ur apt before the ambulance finally arrive (experience)

NY is gotham

USA is hell on earth

there are no freedoms in either. USA gov blatantly MOCKS democracy.

occupy is seen as the resistance so of course the pigs and feds are furious when people actually demand their rights.

like others said, get out before the sinkin ship is totally UNDER and takes u with its downcurrent, dudes!

Large cities like New York City are nothing more than Self Guarded Prisons.

People should get out while they still can!

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All you need is a different Birthdate.

Then you can build from there. Then comes the Social Security Number, which can be different of the two people if you look them up.

Then it should be easy from there.

Then the man can sue for wrongful prosecution, destruction of private property, and harassment based on being arrested without cause, due to their lack of intelligence .(wrong address, wrong SSN, Doh!)

He would walk free with a nice chunk of cash. You have to look up the amount per charge.