Forum Post: Dealing with the NYPD

I have to say that I seems our movement is starting to make enemies with the police. Beat downs in NYC, Beat downs in Boston, and more beat downs to come....which will do us no good. It is important that this change or else their "force" will grow as well as our resentment towards them, which only makes progress more difficult. Instead lets take a different viewpoint. When confronted with police, encourage them to join us. Whether they know it or not and whether we want to believe it, they are also part of the 99%. They have dept, they have mortgages, they have families and student loans, and they have been fucked like the rest of us. Tap in to this, remind them that they are also being fucked, that they too are in dept to corps and the government. Remind them that they are part of the 99% and they should stand up. Once they start realizing this they will understand what they are doing and stand with us instead of against us.