Protesters Take Over NYC by Casey Neistat 

+Mack Pairan That's what I like about the BBC news and PBS. They're not trying to sell commercials so they're more rational-presenting.

+Mack Pairan indeed

Yeah 5 minutes long and no information about who, when. why. what.

Who = the people, When = Wed October 26th 2011, what = a protest against police brutality, why = to stop police brutality It's quite too obvious, isn't it?

A year later you realise how biased Casey is.

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Would be nice to have a little bit of background, not having seen this at the time and watching this 5 years later I had no idea what it was about. Only by reading the description I found out it was Occupy WS. Yet I still have no idea of the motives of the people walking in the protest. He asked nobody questions about why/what they were protesting. But this all might be because it's assumed I already know these things from watching the news. (Or following the NYC scene in Oct 2011.)

that was actually the first BEME news video!

It is easier for news groups to target 1 aide rather then both; for views

Very unbiased labeling them as a mob throughout the video implying they were seeking some sort of justice through the use of force and violence , praising the police for being "more respectful than they should be" (what exactly does that mean? How respectful should they have been?).

Alex Chew Look up the definition for the word “mob.” Its use was completely accurate. And as far as the police showing the protesters respect, yes, they definitely did considering the fact that the protesters were in violation of the law by walking down the middle of the streets and blocking vehicular traffic. The police were quite lenient.

super8films66 but hey won’t

Eh he kind of glossed over the rioting part where they were knocking over trash cans and throwing things into the street

Ikr lol

Lol

Elliot Mermet I would make a bigger deal about that lol

Bohunk Funk same

Same

Same

hahahah same

CaseyNeistat Oh hi Casey!

Lol

Irony

+Turmanation5 no irony if your a cop. They have rules against hiring anyone of above average IQ they want you only if your smart enough to follow orders but not so smart that you would question orders or to see error in procedure or policies.

That's half the point, it makes the police look bad if they are using force on a crowd protesting police brutality.

If it's peaceful protest it shouldn't do which is the entire point of the protest to begin with.

+likeOMGitzNICH! Bullshit. Brutality among protesters against brutality was obvious. When a Policeman is calling you and you try to escape - it is a violation, when you cry out loud in from of somebodys home at night - it is violation. There are no bad or good thing in life, but there is the relation and the law.

Yes.

That was a marine corp dress uniform.

I get your joke but it wasn’t a civil war uniform it’s marine corps

you got literally 26 likes

My like is the 69 like ;)

Nobody going to mention it's spelt biased?

You might. Because you are anknoening

+John Patti haha niec one

John Patti you are a horrible speller

keith perkins Ja,thei r.

lol sad

DiscoverWithDima Oh the irony

Spoiler alert, he quit

LOL

Yeah, like most protesters around the world...

Sooty Rabbit not really most protesters know why they are why they are protesting

egomz123 Sad to tell you that ain’t the case. Guess the rich don’t know that.

Shut up you moron. It's better to be out there doing something about the inequalities and injustice in the world than sat on your fat arse doing sweet fuck all. It's time for change.

David Ciaramella Can you give me an example of something they've accomplished with their marching, their pounding of drums, their chanting, and their signs? Something they've changed for the better? Perhaps an injustice or a grave inequality in the world that they have eradicated with their efforts.

Ah, please. THEIR marching and pounding of drums? Maybe not so far but history is littered with examples of normal people rising up and demanding change - and succeeding! Quit being so narrow-minded and content with a system that gets more greedy and corrupt year-on-year.

David Ciaramella I never claimed to be content with the system. I volunteer my time in legitimate, effective endeavors such as working on political campaigns, community service, etc. Essentially you've admitted that so far, they have accomplished nothing. But maybe in the future something good might come of it? That's a pretty idealist, pie-in-the-sky way of looking at things, which is not grounded in realism. What they have accomplished is causing cities to lose inordinate amounts of money. The protests in Philadelphia cost at least $13 million all told. That money wasn't spent on public welfare programs. Or public transit. Or the improvement of roads and other public services. It was spent repairing damaged and destroyed public and private property, cleaning up massive amounts of litter, paying police overtime to keep the crowd under control, and all the other costs involved when you have a mob of unruly people overtaking a public space. Then you have New York City, which had to spend at least $17 million on police overtime alone. All of this and we're still waiting to find out what they've changed for the better. The Occupy mob is comparable to a small child, angry that he's not getting what he wants. So he crawls to the middle of the floor and throws a tantrum. He screams and shouts and cries and pounds the floor. All his parents have to do is walk into the other room to escape his protests. In the end, the child wears himself out and accomplishes nothing. The parents may be a corrupt system, but sitting on the floor screaming is not the way to change a corrupt system.

Seth Meyers So you are dreaming of people behaving nice? Doing a polite political campaign that doesn't cost a thing? That improves welfare in the US? Well if you are so interested in cost-effectiveness look at this: the last election campaign in the us cost 6 billion $. People making use of their right are much cheaper. More than 120 billion $, does that sum ring a bell? It's the money spent in 2012 for waging war in afghanistan and iraq. You could easily save that money and improve the "worlds biggest democracy". Change won't be done by nice, well adapted us-citiziens, it will be done by those with courage and passion and a vision of a change that is overdue since the murder of JFK.

oh ok

+Talk4 Kids revolution and being against the establishment is always the job of the youth and that is good

PhlpxWslf Democracy is an illusion, your just brainwashed idiot.

ChilloutSessionZ We don't live in a democracy we live in a republic... Thus regardless of what your opinion of democracy is, if you have never lived in a democratic country, where you have been personally and directly given power amongst a group of peers for a limited time, to make decisions regarding all life in that country, then your current view of democracy isn't as true as it could be. Id love to invite you to such a country but seeing as population density has grown to its current proportion i'd have to inform you that that is impossible to do.

Cj Elliott Great comment :)

+ChilloutSessionZ You're an idiot.

veoozo keyboard balls say im an idiot, and you will be 17 feet under the ground with lime on you.

They were protesting against police brutality. It was on all the signs.

I'm pretty sure he is a real marine with the amount of media attention his confrontation with the NYPD that Casey talked about got, I'm sure that someone would have called him out

Magnus Garrett ... no i was talking about that guy for split second with the sign

Exactly. And it had staff Sgt rank on it. No way in hell if that was his he would disrespect it like that. The jeans, the shoes the hair. He just bought that at a military supply store.

MAN31256 ....yea there's no way he served.... these people will do what ever it takes to help there agenda.

McClover thats positive yeah... sadly here in Italy the majority of cops are fascist (and they really are, i dont say that because they are cops), and they beat people who protest peacefully-non violent, and those who actually destroy everything are free to smash everything ... sorry for my english btw, greetings ;-)

valzerna Reminds me of an Italian government in the 30's and early 40's with Mussolini...

valzerna Reminds me of an Italian government in the 30's and early 40's with Mussolini...

***** That sounds like a conspiracy lol.

what were the protesters protesting about?

Holy crap. That is brilliant. I'm actually considering making something like that now.

Would be fun game. Includes strategies and tactics.

black lives need to matter before all lives matter

+Lacey Frieden no... They all do. No race is greater than the other

Kolby Benthin you just contradicted yourself

+TheGoldenDarsh How? My point was to say while YES black lives DO matter, all other lives matter as well.

Kolby Benthin I am sorry, I wasn't reading your original comment correctly

this was in 2011, so this was the occupy Wall Street protests.

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PozPoz BLM didn’t exist back in 2011. They started in 2013. Do some research before spouting nonsense.

Lol i was waiting for him to say what it was for... I still don't know

The crap lord Sell don't be so toxic jesus christ

Always that one guy

it was funny af

@Sam Ellis A little late to the party, bro.

Tbf the riots aren’t actually claiming to be peaceful protests though

hayZmation Hmmmmm, I didn‘t say the rioters are saying that they‘re peaceful. It‘s just nice to see some peaceful protests.

it’s all a matter of opinion

hayZmation ?

_You_ think it's nice to see peaceful protests onstead or riots. I'm just acknowledging that this idea is an opinion.

Occupy Wall Street.

As far I know, there are two things protests accomplish: they bring awareness and make some people who would not take action take do so because they now have some cost to bear, e.g., obstructed traffic would cause the police and people on those roads to react. The greater the costs of the protests, the more leverage the protesters have.

If you don't think protesting changes anything, then you were not paying attention to what happened in Libya and Egypt. Just because something doesn't work once, doesn't mean it will never work. The Civil Rights Movement didn't acccomplish its goals with a single protest. It took a sustained and organized effort that lasted years.

Probably "Stay together" 😂