"horrifyingly... pristine"

And then one day, the sweet princes and princesses of the Portland Police Bureau woke up to find that everything around them had been changed by the wicked Wall St Wizards. Their salaries were tiny when they used to be quite enough. Their social security pool was completely drained, and when they got hurt on the job, their medical bills piled so high that debt-collecting dragons started knocking on their doors. And as the princes and princesses of the Portland Police Bureau got older, they looked back and said "OH MY GOD...THOSE OCCUPY PROTESTERS WERE RIGHT. WHAT HAVE WE DONE!" And they cried and cried and cried, for it's impossible to change the past. But it is possible to change the present.

"...constitutional rights to enjoy two downtown parks."

God, I knew that line was coming before I even started reading. Dear Mr. Fuckface-Turner: you and I both took an Oath to the Constitution of the United States, but aparently you never bothered to study this country's Constitution. Protesting, i.e. "peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is a constitutionally protect right.

Visiting and using a park is not a constitutional right, you dumb-fuck liar.

Where was this guy and his can of pepper spray at the "We Are All Chris Humphrey's" protest? Probably busy beating some mentally ill guy for looking at him funny...

@ fidelity axiom +1

Cops are trained to enforce law, right? And camping in downtown parks was against the law, right?
I don't often like what I read coming from Police Union heads, but....
You do not have a Constitutional Right to camp in downtown parks, despite what you think.
Otherwise, and I ask again, where are your LAWYERS FILING LAWSUITS AGAINST THE CITY?
Oh, there are none. Gee, I wonder why.

They are, frankieb, they’re just not talking about it.

Is it like a Vietnam thing then?
Well, when or if they do, and lose - which from what I read is the likely outcome, I wonder how much more 'occupy' will be sticking it to the 99% of taxpayers forced to fight a lawsuit.

reid, speaking of lawsuits - has Justin Bridges found himself a lawyer yet? I mean, the dude must have gotten a couple limbs amputated by now at the hands of brutal police supression of civil rights.

Turner's comments feel disingenuous at best. Police are trained to use the minimum amount of force needed to achieve compliance. Every hour of everyday, the police make decisions on whether to enforce laws or not. Ever got pulled over for a traffic violation yet not received a ticket? This is no different.

Did I read that right?
Comparing 'occupy' to a traffic ticket? Hmmm....

#11 a traffic ticket is higher up the offence food chain than a park ticket.

#2 Have the Riot Cops figured out that there is a $332 million hole in the FPDR ?

http://oregoncapitolnews.com/blog/2010/10/…

Silly bankers messed up the discount rate to get a bonus.

Because I usually don't agree with the PEU's to begin with, and especially when I hear the head of one speaking it is usually something I take issue with.
Not this time. It makes sense that 'occupy' goes against what cops are trained to do. there shouldn't be any surprise in that.
Can't stand Lars Larson, but even idiots are right sometimes. He was right that time.
I call 'em how I see 'em.
I still find it laughable to compare 'occupy' of hundreds holding city parks, the mess that went along with it - to a traffic ticket.
Still curious to hear of the poster-boy of police brutality - Bridges.