The Occupy Movement is a peaceful, non-violent movement. Civil disobedience is OK.

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A New York City community affairs officer posted this picture on his Facebook page with this comment “….but they are peaceful ….yea right”

Yes officer, THEY ARE PEACEFUL.

Another community affairs officer told me, community affairs officers are the “peace makers”. He also said, they don’t take sides between the community and the police, because they are mediators, however this officer is always saying that OWS demonstrators are violent which is not true.

According to the website of the NYPD-Community Affairs Bureau:
“The Community Affairs Bureau was established to foster positive and productive police-community relations. We do this by providing different interactive community participation programs.
Our mission is to establish communication with community leaders, as well as neighborhood residents, to hear their concerns and answer any questions that may arise.
We also gather intelligence, dispel rumors, disseminate accurate information and establish liaisons with other agencies. By doing this, we can use our information in order to improve the quality of life in all neighborhoods. We strive for a safer tomorrow.”

For those of you who don’t know, civil disobedience is a peaceful protest.

Some protests are best handled through getting the proper permits and obeying the laws about public assembly. Others, though, require the use of civil disobedience, especially if you’re drawing attention to unfair laws and practices. A peaceful protest using civil disobedience can help draw attention to injustice and change laws.
Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_2083182_protest-using-civil-disobedience.html

Gandhi and civil disobedience:
On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gandhi-leads-civil-disobedience

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil disobedience:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a major part of many nonviolent protests as he helped lead the fight for desegregation and equal rights. He was arrested numerous times. In 1963, numerous “sit-ins” were staged in Birmingham, Alabama to protest segregation in restaurants and eating facilities. King was arrested during one of these and while he was imprisoned wrote his famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” In this letter he argued that only through visible protests would progress be made. He argued that it was an individual’s duty to protest and in fact disobey unjusts laws.
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/afamerpeople/p/mlking.htm

Rosa Parks and civil disobedience:
Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or rather, sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African American, was tired after a long day of work and decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home. Because she sat down and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus was full. (Blacks also had to sit at the back of the bus.)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_1.html

Cesar Chavez and civil disobedience:
A strong believer in the principles of nonviolence practiced by Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar effectively employed peaceful tactics such as fasts, boycotts, strikes, and pilgrimages. In 1968 he fasted for 25 days to affirm his personal commitment and that of the farm labor movement to non-violence. He fasted again for 25 days in 1972, and in 1988, at the age of 61, he endured a 36-day “Fast for Life” to highlight the harmful impact of pesticides on farm workers and their children.
http://www.chavezfoundation.org

It is wrong to characterize the nationwide/worldwide Occupy Movement protest based on the actions of a few people. Probably, those a few people are agent provocateurs (a person or group that seeks to discredit or harm another by provoking them to commit a wrong or rash action.) sent by somebody who wants to discredit the Occupy movement.

A police officer said, “I fried another nigger” implying that he falsely arrested another black man. Other officers raped women, killed people, planted drugs on people to meet arrest quotas, smuggled guns into the New York State, another was charged with making a false arrest, apparently as a favor for his cousin. Three more were convicted of robbing a perfume warehouse, (The New York Times reports) etc.
If this officer says the Occupy Movement people are violent then are ALL officers corrupted? NO. There are good police officers. I personally know some of them. Generalizations and stereotypes are not helpful to anyone.

The Occupy Movement is not against the police. Police officers are part of the 99%. They have families to take care of. The Occupy Movement people are fighting for their rights, too.

Again, civil disobedience is a peaceful protest. The Occupy Movement is a peaceful, non-violent movement. Go to Occupy Together and Occupy Wall Street to learn more about their work.