| Report: Occupier Kept Off Flight Home for Christmas for Carrying "Anarchist" Literature By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Posted on December 30, 2011, Printed on January 2, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/756454/report%3A_occupier_kept_off_flight_home_for_christmas_for_carrying_%5C%22anarchist%5C%22_literature Susie Madrack flagged this item on Raw Story, adding: "I find it oddly reassuring that the British security state is just as insane as ours:" A protester associated with Occupy London was barred from boarding his flight home to Malaga for Christmas because he was carrying “anarchist” literature, according to a report in the U.K. newspaper The Independent. The demonstrator was kept off the flight because the pilot worried that he would distribute literature and “upset” other passengers. Police claimed that John Charles Culatto, 34, was “acting suspiciously” when he stopped to talk to other passengers. He was taken into custody as security officials contacted Ryanair, the airline with which Culatto has booked his flight. Culatto claims he heard security personnel using the word “terrorism” as they searched his belongings. When he arrived at the gate, airport security refused to let him board, saying that the flight’s captain had determined that the protester might disrupt the flight by distributing leaflets to other passengers. The airline denies the charge, saying they kept him off the flight because he'd been delayed for an hour by security. © 2012 All rights reserved.
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68 Occupy protesters arrested in NYC
Published: Jan. 1, 2012 at 11:26 PM
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Police efforts to break up an Occupy Wall Street protest in New York led to 68 arrests and an angry Twitter tirade by actress Ellen Barkin Sunday.
Barkin tweeted that she was upset by the aggressiveness of the police officers rounding up the demonstrators, the New York Daily News reported.
"I have never been afraid of an NY policeman until last nite. What I saw was random & senseless arrests and unnecessarily threatening behavior," she posted on Twitter.
Barkin, 57, was angry that she was ushered off the street by a police officer who pushed her by the shoulders, an incident caught on video by her companion, 26-year-old actor Sam Levinson, the Daily News said.
"Take your [expletive] hands off me," she can be heard saying.
In another tweet, she asked: "Is it a crime 2 stand in the street in NY? WTF is going on here?"
Police officials had no comment Sunday night, the newspaper said.
The arrests came as police shut down an Occupy Wall Street march near Union Square. Protesters in Zuccotti Park pulled down metal police barricades sealing off the public park.
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