Occupy Dallas's Bogus Arrests: We Got to Get Up and Organize

No way is this over. No way should anybody let this drop. The Occupy Dallas arrests last Saturday should be taken as a direct challenge, not a lesson or defeat.

The Dallas Police Department is already trying to paper over the outrageous arrests of seven bank protesters last Saturday on trumped up Soviet-style "misuse of sidewalk" bullshit charges. (Police made eight arrests in all.) Everything about this reeks of official misconduct and slime.
The cops claim a small riot started in front of Bank of America downtown when a protester refused to get off a concrete planter that was bank property and then attacked police with a union flag. Stephen Benavides, an organizer for the United Steelworkers, a union trying to organize city employees, remains in jail.

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