On March 30, 2011, an international human rights observer witnessed and reported an unusually cruel and violent confrontation between a NY police officer and an Occupy Wall Street protester. While lying on the ground, the injured protester informed approaching police officers that his shoulder had been dislocated, and that he was experiencing severe pain. The officers reassured him that an ambulance was on its way and because he had been injured, he would not be handcuffed.
But within minutes, a new group of policemen arrived on the scene and brutally handcuffed the protester, calling him a liar as he repeatedly cried out in pain, pleading with them to stop.
According to a report prepared by the Protest and Assembly Rights Project --a coalition of international human rights and U.S. civil liberties experts--the officers repeatedly pushed and pulled the protester’s injured shoulder, in essence, vindictively torturing the young man.