OCT. 12. 2011
EXCLUSIVE TO HUSTLER: Reporter Jordan David, at the “Occupy Wall Street”
protest, interviews one of the two young men detained by New York City
police prior to the arrest of the couple seen in the previous video. (See
the video below.)
From Raw Story:
During the 2004 Republican Nation Convention in New York City, over 1,700 protesters were taken into police custody in one of the most sweeping mass-arrests in US history. Many were held in Manhattan’s Pier 57, inside a warehouse which was contaminated with lead and asbestos. Some were held for days, and without proper access to food, water, outside communication or legal counsel. In Denver, police are preparing what a local political organizer calls a ‘concentration camp,’ laying in wait for mass arrests anticipated during the upcoming Democratic National Convention. On Wednesday, a Denver CBS affiliate sent a news crew to crash the police department’s improvised detention facility, found in a warehouse owned by the city on the north-east side of town. Footage of the warehouse revels tall, chain-link fence capped by barbed wire, and segmented pens each bearing an identifying letter at about shoulder height. Area activists are not amused at the news. CBS carried its footage of the newfound jail to Adam Jung, with Tent State University, and Zoe Williams, a Code Pink organizer. “Very reminiscent of a political prisoner camp, or a concentration camp,” said Williams. “I mean, that’s how you treat cattle,” added Jung. “… It’s a meat processing plant.”
CBS Denver’s report of the facility:
