OWS 1st Death: When Will They Stop the Police Abuse?

OCCUPY'S 1ST VICTIM  Jennifer Fox, 19, was told by doctors that the death of her 3-month-old fetus resulted from damage from a kick and pepper spray administered by police.  Photo: JOSHUA TRUJILLO / SEATTLEPI.COM

I wish I didn't have to say, "I told you so," but it appears the first death has come to an Occupy participant after police kicked and pepper-sprayed a woman while attending Occupy Seattle on Nov. 15. The woman, Jennifer Fox, has reportedly suffered a miscarriage. OWS Seattle Miscarriage 


News of the death spread yesterday even as new evidence of police-abuse video surfaced on the internet following pepper spray attacks on University of California Davis campus. Police actions throughout the U.S. that cross the line into unprovoked and violent suppression tactics are making a mockery of the supremacy of 1st Amendment right to peaceable assembly.


As I wrote here on Nov. 2 in an open call to federal officials, "Stop playing politics with the lives of our citizenry and call for an end to the unjustified attacks on OWS's exercising its Constitutional First Amendment actions."


If necessary, federal officials should call out the National Guard to keep our citizens safe from rouge law enforcement forces. This is the patriotic, moral, liberal tradition of civil rights protection every American (even the unborn) demands.