YouTube is probably the bane of law enforcement right now.

This is completely uncalled for. Trampling strikers with no health insurance with horses?

Also, apparently the Houston cops wanted to demonstrate that UCLA campus police had nothing on them.  

It's absolutely insane.  Aren't Houston police unionized?  Absolutely inexcusable behavior.

This is awful.  I had an acquaintance in Boston who got clubbed in the head by a mounted cop during an anti-Nazi protest.  (The Nazis were going to disrupt a holocost memorial service.)  The Nazis were protected, and the anti-Nazis were clubbed.  Go figure.

By the way, I do tend to read a lot about war, ancient and modern, and against anyone mounted, it is best to form into tight groups.  Horses resist charging into tight masses.  (It helps if you have spears, but that would probably be a felony.)

jesus christ!  what's next?  are the pinkertons going to be revived?

Once torture is sanctioned by the authorities, anything else seems like small potatoes to some.

Not us personally. But collectively as a nation, we have let to many incidents pass by without enough outrage.We had a kid younger than a teenager tasered. Now we got the UCLA and the strike incident.

I was surprised by the lack of outrage towards the UCLA incident on this blog. We got a million diaries on trivial stuff, at times, but we just had one diary on this , and the one diary had 3 or 4 responses at best. The UCLA Bruin had a scathing editorial on the incident, but the outrage was not as severe as it should have been even at UCLA. The paper online edition had one opinion writer saying the guy deserved it and no one to counter that guy. It's like they had to bend backwards to give it balance. The guy couldn't even counter a single point made in the editorial.  Very few cared about it even on MYDD. Did any Democratic Party leaders even bother to condemn it? I don't care whether the student was a jerk or not, it should be a basic accepted principle that we do not taser unarmed students, even if he is committing an act of civil disobedience(whether you feel it is trivial or not) , especially 4 or 5 times in a row, not even giving the guy a chance to recover. We had maybe 3 comments about it in two days?

The news really didn't talk about it that much. I think Olbermann gave it some space. This is a wakeup call.

Now we got this. If this group didn't have the word "union" in it, I wonder if many would be bother talking about it.

and putting these pictures right where the nation, and some folks in DC, can have a chance to see them and think long and hard about how far our nation has bent over backward to corporations.

Do the Houston Police view these janitors as human beings?  Apparently not.

Corporate reform starts here: with workers.

You're either with us or against us. You're either a torture-loving patriot or a terrorist-coddling wuss. Now get out there and taser and trample and waterboard! Go go go!

These fuckers should not only be fired, but sued individually. They deserve to lose their pensions, their houses, and their future...it is the only way justice will prevail.

If any of these assholes had a sense of decency, they would have been sucking on their service revolver hours ago.

Police violence is far more common than most people realize.  The wave of exposures is quite welcome.

It's always hard to tell if there is more violence happening in a timeframe, or simply more exposure.  But it is interesting to note the wave of exposures, regardless of the underlying reason.  The import should still be the same: elections are very important, but they are only one facet of the ongoing struggle for social justice.

What I don't understand is why the Houston and UCLA incidents cannot be prosecuted as criminal actions. Injuring an 83 year old with a horse and multiple tasering of a student would appear to be criminal acts to me.

Coorporations are greedy, heartless pigs.  

Wow. Humanity has gone out the window. Thanks Bush. All anyone seems to understand is money, and a severe loss of it for human rights violations might be the wake up call that's' needed.

I am just as fucking outraged as anyone. I am pro-union to the core. But the wingnuts will just be laughing when they read this.

" The janitors make on average $20 a day with no health insurance.  The companies responsible?  Chevron.  And Hines Interest, the city's largest hometown building owner.

These people make on average $5.35 an hour."

Okay. Take these two statements together and it tells me that the average janitor works 3.75 hours a day ($20/$5.35). Somehow I doubt that is the median work day. Or I could take the "$20 a day" seriously and come up with $2.50 an hour based on a 8 hour day. Which in most cases would be literally a federal crime.

Look if you were to tell me that the average janitor working a 40 hour week was only grossing $214 a week or $10700 a year I would agree that it was an outrage ($5.35 X 40 X 52). But at least get the numbers straight. This isn't the econoblogs here but either we need some basic numeracy, some better editing, more context for these numbers or some combination of all three.

Houston cops today are just like Chicago cops in the 60s.

Bunch of thugs and bullies.

grandstanding republican DA in Houston last night requested bail of $888,888 for each of the 44 peaceful protestors arrested in the horse trampling incident. that's a combined $39 million and change. the janitors were accused of class b misdemeanors - normal bond rate is $500. a guy recently chared with murder in Houston had bail set at only $30,000!

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061117/nyf13 0.html?.v=5

Houston law enforcement showing true colors.

Will working people get pushed farther into poverty or will they get a real opportunity to reach the american dream

wow

Horses will not advance on protestors who are carrying open flame. Torches are preferrable, must be large enough to catch the horses attention.

last year.  Mounted officers charged through their own barricades after people on foot, claiming they had been "assaulted".

A public hearing on the matter was, naturally, a whitewash.

The Harris County DA set bail for the protestors at $888,888 each, or a total of $39.1 million.  This compares with a recent murder arraignment bail of $30,000.

Did I mention that every single judge in Harris County is a Republican?

Houston is the belly of the GOP beast, folks.  And I oughta know.

I'm so old, I remember when this sort of thing would be the lead story on the network news.

It takes a special kind of person to trample another human being with a horse.

This is outraging: janitors are not some things as frigidaire parts, they are human beings for God's sake. The police has crossed over the limit of humanity, they should be fired and never hired in the police ever again.