REPRINTED FROM MARK CRISPIN MILLER’S News from Underground: #
http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-occupy-la-arrest-by-p… #
*My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan*
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My name is Patrick Meighan, and I�m a husband, a father, a writer on the
Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy” and a member of the Unitarian
Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
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I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people
at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket,
and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh’s “Being Peace” when 1,400 heavily-armed
LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of
about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked,
around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD
officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted “We Are Peaceful”
and “We Are Nonviolent” and “Join Us.”
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As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives
to slice open every personal tent in the park… #
Thank you for letting me share that anger with you today.
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Patrick Meighan
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