‘US militarizing police for street battles’

“We’re seeing the militarization of the police force, and they’re doing exactly the same thing they’d be doing in Afghanistan or Iraq,” Allen Roland said on Friday in an interview with Press TV.

“They’re no longer training police for anything else except urban battles because they’re expecting the worst to happen here particularly as the true extent of our economic depravity becomes evident to everyone,” Roland added.

The Occupyarrests.com says the US police have so far arrested at least 6020 Occupy protesters across the United States since the beginning of the movement in September 2011.

The Occupy Oakland General Assembly declared February 6 as a “day of action” in protest at police brutality against Occupy movement protesters.

Oakland police have responded to the Occupy protesters with flash grenades, rubber bullets, tear gas and firing of “non-lethal” weapons.

Late last month, riot police detained more than 500 protesters in Oakland during one of the largest mass arrests since nationwide protests began last year.

Scott Olsen, 24, an Iraq war veteran, suffered a fractured skull and brain swelling after he was hit in the head by a police projectile during the clashes on October 25, 2011.

The Occupy movement emerged after a group of demonstrators gathered in New York’s financial district on September 17, 2011 to protest against the unjust distribution of wealth in the country and the excessive influence of big corporations on US policies.

Despite the police crackdown and mass arrests, the Occupy movement has now spread to many major US cities.

Occupy protesters across the US say they will maintain their resistance against authorities and fight for their cause despite the crackdown.

GMA/MYA/MA

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