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Authorities: Car hits Occupy DC protesters; excerpt ...
District of Columbia authorities say a car drove through a crowd near an Occupy DC protest and struck three people.
97.87.29.188 (talk) 20:21, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
So I removed the word "peaceful" from the introduction. Mk2z0h (talk) 21:50, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
Yeah, that ain't gonna fly. It's back to accuracy now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.36.192.198 (talk) 08:32, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
The sentence about this should be removed for biased phrasing and terminology. The video that supposedly shows a wheelchair bound woman being "violently" prevented from leaving is actually just video of the woman being interviewed by the cameraman just inside the doors of the Walter Washington Convention Center with protesters on the outside of the doors. The lady wasn't violently manhandled or anything.
And she was being prevented from leaving just like everyone else inside. Therefore, her story shouldn't be singled out from the rest of the guests inside the Convention Center.
This is the one: "November 5, 2011: The Daily Caller posted a video of protestors who blocked vehicular traffic, only allowing non-luxury vehicles to pass."
I'm removing it because:
(1) The date is wrong. November 5 is the Daily Caller's dateline, not the date the event occurred.
(2) Any mention of protesters blocking vehicles can be done better in a reformed statement of information about Occupy D.C.'s protest of the Americans for Prosperity event at the Washington Convention Center. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.36.192.198 (talk) 08:43, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
141.218.36.152 (talk) 21:57, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
I have reformed the summary of what happened on this date in the current events timeline of the article to more accurately and neutrally report the facts without the use of strong adjectives and adverbs. The original author of this section was obviously critical of the Occupy D.C. protest at the Washington Convention Center, and perhaps wrote about it with some emotion. Not only did he/she use "violently" to describe the protest several times, he/she also inserted "violently" into the first sentence of the article as a description of Occupy D.C. in general, as if to make a political point.
I kept the TheBlaze.com as a source because to my knowledge, there isn't any rule against using a politically biased source. While TheBlaze.com is an obviously biased right-wing site, liberals/progressives would be within their rights to add a source to a liberal/progressive site which presents a liberal take on the November 4 protest.74.36.192.198 (talk) 14:20, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
I've removed the Russia Today news template from the page, as it had raised concern because it pointed to a single trending news page, rather than a selection of trend pages, and after discussion in the appropriate places, it's easier to remove it than it is to add lots of other trend pages, as I don't know of any (don't have time to look). If there are any comments, concerns, or suggestions please reply on my talkpage, as I don't watch this page. Penyulap ☏ 03:49, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
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