Police, shoppers & Occupiers react to Black Friday protest

Tension, mixed reactions and one arrest after Occupy Eugene protestors took their message straight to Eugene’s Black Friday shoppers, rallying against mass-consumerism and corporate greed.

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pnwmomofboys - 11/26/2011 9:54 PM
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Sorry typo - stopp = stoop ;)

pnwmomofboys - 11/26/2011 9:53 PM
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tsr2414 That is hilarious. I had no idea Occupiers would stopp so low as to own icrap. The whole movement is rabid with hypocrisy. How funny!

tsr2414 - 11/26/2011 8:50 PM
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ok, I work at walmart on Green acres, and I was the first to respond to there chants, first, it was everything but orderly, they started argueing with our managers, the started it in the food isle, where no one could here them, they were playing in carts, and even throwing things, the were recording it with theyre IPhones, even when the managers asked them not to, plus they were screaming chants, so loud that people in garden could hear it, and when they were asked to leave, they wouldnt budge, it took EVERY employee to kick them out, they dont even know what they were fighting for, they are anti corperation, yet they all had IPhones?

Dentfixxer - 11/26/2011 3:48 PM
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Occupy Eugene needs to protest in a respectable legal manner, that would include their camping as protesting. Their voice should be heard in a respectable legal manner that does not interfere with the community's ability to go about their daily business, or activities. It is time for Occupy Eugene to Un-Occupy Eugene. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Un-Occupy-Eugene/220261108045728

Dan 97401 - 11/26/2011 11:07 AM
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Times Arrow, really?! Do you not realize that Eugene has a Democrat Mayor, Oregon has a Democrat Governor, and the United States a Democrat President? Large corperations & Wall Street donated record amounts to get Obama elected and yet you say it's the Republicans. As far as the media - as a whole it definately leans left. Too funny.

TimesArrow - 11/26/2011 9:10 AM
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Wonder if this is lobbying firm Clark Lytle Geduldig & Cranford operation to smear OWS? We'll never know because the 1% will never investigate the 1%. Black Friday should be shut down because of all the violence and cost to the tax payers for extra police needed. Has the Corporate Media calculated the costs of Black Friday as they have for OWS? There is actually NO NEED for police riot teams at peaceful OWS sit-ins, at most 1 car to keep mentally unstable citizens from joining the group. There should be FEDERAL investigations into the collusion/racketeering between city halls and Republican/Corporate leaders who are trying to kill OWS to keep their handle on power. (JUST LIKE IN EGYPT and SYRIA RIGHT NOW!) The mayors have wasted millions of dollars on police overtime doing the bidding for ELITIST Republicans. This is pure corruption within our local governments, federal Republicans, corporations and the Corporate Media.

xr600 - 11/26/2011 5:49 AM
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Valley River Center is private property? The property management company should have posted no loitering signs on Black Friday and had anyone who was not there shopping (The smelly vagrants engaged in a drumming circle in the middle of the mall) and had them told to leave. If those who were loitering failed to leave, issue them a citation for trespassing and drop them off somewhere downtown where they belong. Oh, wait, I forgot, that would require a mayor that wasn't sympathetic to their cause. Eugene Police officers are a group of brave men and women that are unfortunately prevented from maintaining a safe and orderly town by their liberal mayor, Kitty Piercey. The voters should remember that next time she is up for re-election. She's the reason several large businesses that were in Eugene have closed up shop and moved across the river to Springfield, who gladly welcomes their business and their tax dollars. Have a nice day!

huhwhat - 11/25/2011 11:20 PM
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occupy antachist groups have less rights the business property owners, you can bank on that FACT. you trespass you get your hand slapped, sent back out. you back to the same private property owner business and your hit with felony trespass, no county jail for you. No rotating back out, you get a cell mate called baba who calls you princess. But most Occupy group likes that anyhow, but atleast there off the streets and not causing anymore personal and property damage. Big businesses that own thier own property are brutal when it comes to trespassers.

Phrank - 11/25/2011 9:26 PM
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Business owners have less rights than the Occupy Eugene group......you can bank on that fact.

renaissanceguy - 11/25/2011 7:19 PM
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They are simply looking to cause disruption, express the discontent with their own unproductive lives, and get media attention. Too bad they don't actually have any worthwhile, coherent causes that matter.

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