A relatively quiet day of protests at the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organizations in Chicago resulted in chaos. Unlike their counterparts in NYC, the Chicago police have mostly been cooperative and calm in the face of the Occupy protestors. Who knows, maybe they slip Valium in their donuts.
But as hundreds of protesters headed to the Board of Trade building Saturday night as they protested NATO, they were met with the usual type of overactive police, decked out in riot gear, that have come to define the protests.
At one point, a police van with sirens flashing drove down the middle of Jackson, forcing the marchers to disperse. A protester jumped on the front fender of the van, then got off, and someone shouted, “They hit him! They hit him!”
Twitter user @LiborVonSchonau reported the incident on Twitter and provided a photo of the van hitting the protestors. According to OccupyWallStreet’s official twitter page, the protestor who was hit has been hospitalized but that is all that they know.
Here’s the video:
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This is absolutely obscene! I cannot believe we let this kind of thing happen in America! And where are all of the news stations that are supposed to be covering this? Bless this protestor and his family. He needs to survive to tell his story. A story about greed and corruption. Not only on wallstreet, but also in the police stations. We, as a country, need to band together and effect change in this country. You know there is something wrong when the rich pay less than the middle class does in taxes. All you need to do is look at the tax brackets 2011 and you will be able to tell that something is drastically wrong. Why do the rich pay so little? We need to get this money out of politics so that the rest of America cast be safe again.