MIAMI, Florida (PNN) - March 16, 2012 - On Tuesday, dozens of pig thug cops equipped with shotguns and assault rifles stormed a Miami, Florida apartment and drew their weapons on peaceful protesters and children with the local Occupy Wall Street campaign.
If a SWAT team drew down on unarmed occupiers, that would still be a horrifying, newsworthy story, but what makes the Miami event additionally alarming is that these were not squatters, but rather legal residents.That detail seems to have been glossed over by local and national corporate media. The term "occupiers," though obviously drawing from the name of the protest group, paints an inaccurate depiction of this specific group as having been illegally occupying the apartment building. That's not the case.
Rodrigo Duque, the owner of the apartment building and an Occupy protester, allowed some members of Occupy Miami to live there following the eviction of protesters from their camp on January 31.
During the raid, terrorist fascist outlaw pig thug cops drew their weapons on children, forced a 57-year-old diabetic woman onto the ground, and harassed at least one individual, Ramy Mahmoud, during an informal and illegal interrogation.
"They are calling us terrorists, but what I saw today was demons pointing guns at us," Ramy Mahmoud adds to the account. "They terrified us.”
Mahmoud claims he was asked questions such as, "Are you a Muslim?" and "Do you love this country?"
"I said hell no, I don't love this country, and it's because of (garbage) like this,” Mahmoud tells the Miami New Times.
Fascist pig thug cops say they were responding to alleged reports that residents inside were stockpiling weapons to use in an upcoming demonstration, but the pig thug cops lie on a regular basis and there is no independent evidence corroborating their false statements.
“They said that they had gotten a tip that we had 'long guns' and were going to use them at our protest," Occupy member Thomas Parisi tells the Miami New Times. "But we are a peaceful movement and told them that we had no intention of doing anything like that."
Fascist pig thug cops placed protesters in handcuffs initially, but later released them at the scene and no arrests were made, keeping with the Amerikan Gestapo national unlawful strategy of "grab and release" that has been illegally implemented by outlaw pig thug cops in dealing with the Occupy protest movement.
Like the rest of the country, Florida pig thug cops have undergone a rapid militarization by the Amerikan Gestapo.