NYPD arrest a young woman just hours after raid on Zuccotti Park began on Nov. 15, 2011
Members of the hacktivist group Anonymous have released sixty hours
of footage of the raid by the New York Police Department against Occupy
Wall Street on November 15, 2011. The footage posted is from the New
York Police Department’s Technical Assistance Research Unit (TARU), a
surveillance unit that is regularly present at political demonstrations
to film police actions. It was posted as a torrent for download late in
the evening on September 23. A
tiny sample of the footage, including a statement read by a member of Anonymous, was posted on YouTube.
The computerized voice in the video begins, “On November 15, 2011,
the NYPD surrounded Zuccotti Park and proceeded to forcefully dismantle
the Occupy Wall Street encampment. As part of this effort, the
authorities made all media leave this scene and the only images of what
happened came from livestreamer who stayed in the center of the park
until his arrest and one other citizen journalist who kept filming on
his camera and managed to smuggle his footage after the arrest zone.” It
goes on to say a “trove” of video shot by the NYPD itself from
“fourteen different angles,” including surveillance cameras, is being
released.
The statement in the video also suggests the NYPD tampered with videos in the “
mini-archive”
of footage released to cover up “atrocities” or acts of police
brutality committed. The voice claims a “lot of this police footage” has
been edited, “some may say even tampered with to remove the most
damning incidents.” It adds there are” obvious edits,” which makes the
tampering apparent but, in total, there is enough footage here to “paint
a picture of what really happened when the cameras left.”
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