{"id":1115,"date":"2009-03-18T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T20:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/18\/are-we-living-in-a-police-state\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T23:26:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T07:26:15","slug":"are-we-living-in-a-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1115\/are-we-living-in-a-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Living in a Police State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/js\/flowplayer\/FlowPlayer.swf\" width=\"480\" height=\"388\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/js\/flowplayer\/FlowPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config={videoFile:'http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/uploads\/2009\/03\/17\/sfpdattackatisraeliconsulate_3-16-09.mp4_preview_.flv',splashImageFile:'http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/im\/play-button-328x240.jpg',loop:false,autoPlay:false,autoBuffering:false,bufferLength:5,initialScale:'fit'}\"><\/param>Your browser is not able to display this multimedia content.<\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 18, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Watch this unedited video of a demonstration outside the Israeli embassy on Tuesday in downtown San Francisco and ask yourself if the San Francisco Police Department is guilty of police brutality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Demonstrators were more or less milling around and chanting when two or three police officers began to assault demonstrators who were standing near some barricades and newspaper stands,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2009\/03\/17\/18578412.php\">IndyBay.org<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Within seconds, up to a dozen cops rushed in swinging their billy clubs wildly at anyone they could hit in the crowd &#8212; swinging overhead, swinging to their sides, just swinging at everyone in front of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your browser is not able to display this multimedia content. 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