A defining moment in the Occupy Wall Street movement

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Occupy Wall Street movement reached a defining moment on Saturday night in New York City when U.S. Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas, who served with the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion USMC in Iraq for 14 months, shamed NYPD officers for physical violence against unarmed peaceful protestors. Occupy Wall Street: Sergeant Shamar Thomas Yells At NYPD Officers After Times Square Protest (VIDEO):

Thomas, a New York native, then explains that his father served in Afghanistan, his mother served in Iraq and that he doesn't like seeing cops hurting the people he and his family fought to protect:

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 On his YouTube channel, where the video of the speech is posted, he writes:

I took an Oath that I live by. am NOT anti-NYPD. I am anti- Police Brutality. I am no longer under contract with the USMC so I do NOT have to follow military uniform regulations. I DON'T affiliate myself with ANY GROUPS or POLITICAL ORG. I affiliate myself with the AMERICAN PEOPLE that's it. I REFUSE to affiliate with anything that SEPARATES. There is an obvious problem in the country and PEACEFUL PEOPLE should be allowed to PROTEST without Brutality. I was involved in a RIOT in Rutbah, Iraq 2004 and we did NOT treat the Iraqi citizens like they are treating the unarmed civilians in our OWN Country. No one was brutalized because our mission was to 'WIN the hearts and minds.' why should I expect anything less in my OWN Country.

THIS is what it means to be an American who defends the Constitution of the United States of America. Ooh-Rah Marine! Semper Fi!