Houston police trampled on striking janitors with horses last night. The janitors make on average $20 a day with no health insurance. That is frakking ridiculous. It is wrong. So, these workers protested peacefully for higher wages, and the Houston police department rode into the crowd with horses to intimidate and injure the workers.
It worked, as they arrested 44 workers and hurt 4 of them, including an 83 year old man. I don't care if you don't like unions. This is insane.
(Movie:1min 30sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpOn_77yixY&eurl=
(pics)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoller/299816373/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoller/299816369/
(Read what the janitors have to say)
http://www.houstonjanitors.org/police-violence-111606/
2006-11-18 13:53:16 · 10 answers · asked by big-brother 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
"andy g" The right to protest peacefully is a Constitutionally guaranteed activity.
2006-11-18 14:01:08 · update #1
"Devildriv..." It has been "convieniently edited out" becuase the media is not covering this. I wish I had another link, but if the media covered everytime we inched closer to a police state, maybe you would get too scared and change the channel or turn the age.
2006-11-18 14:56:08 · update #2
I meant "page",but congratulations on being 26.
2006-11-18 17:44:50 · update #3
I don't see a problem here. Those people didn't get trampled by the horses, they got dragged out of the steet onto the sidewalk by the police. I am sure that the police told them to move their protest to the sidewalk and they refused. Well above all if a police officer gives you a order you have to follow it. If you notice in the video once they are moved to the sidewalk the police leave them alone.
2006-11-19 06:44:37 · answer #1 · answered by Cowboy Jacob 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Bush is trying hard to finish off the unions. Reagan and the other bush made a good start.
The whole illegal immigrant furor started because the administration wanted to bring back the Bracero program or some similar guest worker program. That would raise profits and destroy the unions. But too many people picked up on the racist part of the propaganda, and it has grown to the point where another Bracero program is no longer guaranteed.
Police violence has gotten out of hand all across the nation, not just in Texas. Humboldt County in California has been the sire of such acts of bravery as a 300 pound deputy swabbing pepper spray into the eyeballs of a 90 pound girl in a sit-in protest. Police killing a mental patient who's door they had kicked in when she reached for an Olin plastic flare launcher claiming it was possible to machine the chamber to accept a standard 12ga. shotgun shell (would have burst if tried). Beating a newspaper reporter and destroying his camera because he had filmed their beating a teen-aged girl with nightsticks. Killing a teen-aged boy who they say threatened them from 50 feet away with a knife. Etc. etc.
It has gotten to the point that people fear the police, with cause. So many are acting with unjustified violence because they believe they can get away with it. Revenge for Rodney King episodes? Perhaps, but it has to end.
2006-11-18 22:09:07 · answer #2 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
What's with the protesting crap?I lived in Houston in the late 80's,and at 16,i made $10.00hr wheelbarrowing concrete.If they wanted higher wages,they should have found another job.Hell,they could have flipped burgers for more than that.Even filled their pie hole in the process.
EDIT:WTF is an 83 year old man doing working as a janitor?.He must have really screwed up his life if he had to still work at 83.
2006-11-18 22:00:57 · answer #3 · answered by STIFLE IT LIBS 2 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Any bets on the legallity of the protesters? Read up on the constitution......PEACEFUL PROTEST!! I can't help but wonder what turned this into an unpeaceful protest, because that aspect of the story has been conveinently edited out.
2006-11-18 22:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would like to hear both sides of the story before making a judgment.
2006-11-18 22:20:18 · answer #5 · answered by Mike J 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If people obeyed the law then incidents like this would not happen!!!!!
My life is half way over with and I have learned don't make trouble and there will be no trouble!!! Trouble makers deserve what they get!!! Amazing that law abidders never have this kind of trouble!!!
2006-11-18 21:57:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Yes. If the job is really that bad...go get another one.
2006-11-18 22:21:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think this is just sad.
xxl boxers, you are a jerk to politicize this.
2006-11-18 22:22:43 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pretty much any use of force by police is unacceptable.
I don't condone use of force for any purpose, other than to neutralize a murderer or rapist.
That situation is horrible.
2006-11-18 21:55:36 · answer #9 · answered by neogeoloco@sbcglobal.net 2 · 3⤊ 5⤋
No. They should use bicycles.
2006-11-18 23:11:26 · answer #10 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋