{"id":9529,"date":"2011-11-07T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2011-11-07T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T12:05:09","slug":"letting-a-situation-get-out-of-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9529","title":{"rendered":"Letting A Situation Get Out Of Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Wash_convention_center.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Wash convention center\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/5\/5c\/Wash_convention_center.jpg\/300px-Wash_convention_center.jpg\" alt=\"Wash convention center\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/11\/07\/koch-group-staffers-event-attendees-911-hung-up-on-us-four-times-during-occupy-dc-mob\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0posted a story on some of the events surrounding an\u00a0Americans For Prosperity&#8217;s \u201cDefending the American Dream Summit\u201d\u00a0at the\u00a0Washington Convention Center on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Videos from various news sources and people at the event are posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/hundreds-of-occupy-d-c-protesters-block-conservatives-from-leaving-summit\/\">The Blaze<\/a>. A\u00a0video posted by the Media Research Council at The Blaze showed a group of protesters fighting with convention center security guards and placing two children in the center of the scuffle. There is a lot of yelling and the children can be heard crying.<\/p>\n<p>The people inside the Convention Center called 911 and asked for more police at the site. The 911 operators hung up on them four times.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cLast evening when we were in our dinner session, we actually noticed that there were protesters outside, and lined up on each corner,\u201d (AFP\u2019s director of Human Resources, Heather) de la Riva<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> said. \u201cWe were getting ready to dismiss activists and let out for the evening. So, I did place a call to 911 just giving them a heads-up that we were going to be leaving the convention area and that there were protesters outside. I did understand that there was already a police presence, but I was hoping that they would be able to calm the situation so that we didn\u2019t run into any altercations. And, they [911] hung up.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>AFP volunteer Melissa Ortiz, who is wheelchair-bound, said she also called 911 to ask for help leaving the convention center. \u201cI personally called 911,\u201d Ortiz told TheDC. \u201cThey said, \u2018are the police there?\u2019 I said, \u2018yes they are.\u2019 Then, click.\u201d They hung up on her too, she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This series of events does not reflect well on the District police department.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=bb1f1b06-dd99-4262-87a2-bb9c05ff4211\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Daily Caller\u00a0posted a story on some of the events surrounding an\u00a0Americans For Prosperity&#8217;s \u201cDefending the American Dream Summit\u201d\u00a0at the\u00a0Washington Convention Center on Friday night. Videos from various news sources and people at the event are posted at The Blaze. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=9529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1130,1132,1131,1133,741,1129],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-americans-for-prosperity","tag-blaze","tag-convention-center","tag-occupy-dc","tag-protest","tag-walter-e-washington-convention-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9536,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions\/9536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}