November 18, 2011
vicemag:

“Worse, it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated electronics, a strategic smashing of at least part of the digital record logged by full-on occupiers. “Dude, all the laptops are in a row,” he tells us, baffled and raking his shock of brown hair. “They’ve all been smashed with bats.” When asked about the mangled property, [sanitation worker] LiPani admits that, inevitably, certain items could’ve been damaged in the shuffle: “I’m not surprised,” he says, to hear of damaged laptops. He adds that the DSNY is providing clearance forms to those occupiers concerned their property may’ve been mishandled or misplaced.
But Wilder wants footage – visual proof to show to whoever it is he hopes will step up, legally, to defend the FNF. Hell, we want footage. At some risk, admittedly, we hand him an iPhone. He heads back inside.
Resurfacing a few minutes later, he shows us these:


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Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD’s Lost and Found

They took it too far when they smashed the bikes.

vicemag:

“Worse, it was as if someone along the way purposefully destroyed all confiscated electronics, a strategic smashing of at least part of the digital record logged by full-on occupiers. “Dude, all the laptops are in a row,” he tells us, baffled and raking his shock of brown hair. “They’ve all been smashed with bats.” When asked about the mangled property, [sanitation worker] LiPani admits that, inevitably, certain items could’ve been damaged in the shuffle: “I’m not surprised,” he says, to hear of damaged laptops. He adds that the DSNY is providing clearance forms to those occupiers concerned their property may’ve been mishandled or misplaced.

But Wilder wants footage – visual proof to show to whoever it is he hopes will step up, legally, to defend the FNF. Hell, we want footage. At some risk, admittedly, we hand him an iPhone. He heads back inside.

Resurfacing a few minutes later, he shows us these:

See the rest:

Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street? Inside the NYPD’s Lost and Found

They took it too far when they smashed the bikes.

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    who gives a shit? don’t take your laptops to a protest you fucking idiots. You complain about the economy but you’re...
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    What I like most...that it stopped being about income disparity as much as
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    FUCK.OFF. Uncool, very fucking uncool.
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    FRIENDS: This is...built (which was providing free wifi
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    legit source for news...non-corporate/sponsor influence.
  17. copstop said: ha, cops being dicks, surprised there aren’t tire tracks on these as well
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    too far when they
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