NYPD = Judas Goats

There ought be no mention made of the arrests yesterday when Occupy Wall Street marched onto the Brooklyn bridge, without making it clear in the same piece that it was the NYPD who deliberately led the marchers onto the motor-vehicle roadway, in order to trap them part-way across the bridge and arrest hundreds.

Are the strategists within the Department actually so clueless as to think this would not be obvious when the world sees it on video? (Note around 6:15 that one officer has clearly been tasked to video-tape the marchers, including those who were legally filming from and shouting their support from the pedestrian walk above.)

Regardless of where anyone stands on the American political divide, I think we all should agree that this sort of police tactic is, well, it is un-American!