Authorities brutalize elderly at parade (a blast from the past)

Here's a story from back in March that the dinosaur media continues to ignore.

At the St. Patrick's Day parade in Colorado Springs - which uses public streets paid for by the taxpayers - 7 people, at least 2 of whom were 65 or older, were terrorized by cops simply because of their opposition to the war. And yes, there's photographs. So don't deny it. (I know conservatives will deny it, just like how they deny everything else even when there's solid proof.)

The people who were arrested were already approved to be in the parade after paying their $15 fee. At most, the only protesting they did at the parade was wear antiwar shirts or carry signs. Still this dissent was too much for Colorado Springs, I guess.

Police yanked a 65-year-old woman who walked with a cane out of a bookmobile, threw her onto the pavement, and combatively dragged her across the street. She was brutalized so savagely by the cops that she had to be taken to the hospital with leg injuries including a large open cut. Cops also seized the bookmobile. Another woman was kneed in the groin by a police officer. Also, a cop was photographed placing a chokehold on a retired clergyman. One of the people arrested was a man who was about to turn 76.

These arrests followed an attack against the peace activists by someone who was apparently a right-wing civilian disrupting the parade. This disruptor physically pushed the activists around before the police arrived.

A local pastor said of the arrests, "It was clearly police brutality. The people I talked to just couldn't believe what happened." This is clear to me just from the photos. I don't expect the conservative wingnuts who invade my blog to actually bother to look at the photos, and even if they do, they'll deny the authorities did anything wrong anyway. Not like I give a shit what the wingnuts think (to use the term loosely) anyway.

Didn't anyone teach the police in this story to respect their elders?

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/19/221315/372)