re: #292 Dark_Falcon

The NYPD was both more effective and less brutal than the Ukrainian Bakrut. Better tactics coupled with the fact that Occupy Wall Street wasn’t organized or equipped to fight the police.

It’s not really worth comparing OWS to Euromaidan. The former had far lower stakes and much less cohesion than the latter.

That said, it remains a fact that police seriously do not like large protests. The following t-shirt was sold at the gift shop of the NBC Tower during the run-up to the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago. It was very popular with law enforcement, with the 2nd production batch being prepurchased in its entirety by a Chicago police organization.

Protestors unwelcome.

It wasn’t just the CPD either, as the Federal Protective Service personnel assigned to Chicago for the event bought a number of them as well.