The New York Times

     New York City is one of the biggest cities in the U.S where something happens a lot like demonstrations and terrors. I’ve felt and thought the authorities of NYC in any departments is even more powerful than the other cities of the U.S since I came here and saw something happened.

     Especially, I think the authority of the New York Police Department sometimes crosses the line. As we read the article about the protest on the financial system in the New York Times, it seemed to me like the overreaction of the authority of the NYPD. I wondered using pepper spray would be the only way to control the protesters and there would be no way to prevent them from extending the demonstration in the city except for using that at that time. The NYPD has been through lots of events and accidents for a long time like other demonstrations or terrors and they know how to control those events with appropriate ways. In this demonstration, the protesters weren’t even armed actually, and there were also some people passing by there with doing anything, but the NYPD penned all the people around there by using net and pepper spray.

     There is no clear line to judge how appropriately the authorities controls the public with, however, the authorities obviously know who needs to be controlled and the ways to prevent something bad happened when they confront the situation. Recording videos about it wouldn't have existed on the internet and become the issue if the excess hadn’t happened.

Goldstein, Joseph. “ Videos Show Police Using Pepper Spray at Protest on the Financial System” The New York Times :A21. 26 Sept. 2011.