Bum Rush: Ex-Cop Drags OWS Runt Out of Bob Turner Swearing-In By Scruff of Neck

...and the cop immediately becomes the GOP front-runner for President. (Modified Conan O'Brien joke.)

Kevin Hiltunen, a former NYPD officer, yesterday grabbed an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator by the collar and dragged him out of a Queens school where he’d been heckling US Rep. Bob Turner at the congressman’s swearing-in ceremony.

“I guess you could say I sorted him out,” said Hiltunen, 48, his jacket and tie barely mussed after dragging the scruffy protester out on his rear end.

“All I was doing was trying to stop this historic occasion from being disrupted. There is a time and place to exercise your First Amendment rights,’’ said Hiltunen, of Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, who was identified by people at the ceremony as an ex-Marine.

“This was not the time or the venue,” Hiltunen added.

The first diagnosed case of Zucotti Ass.

Meanwhile, the Zucotti squatters (and I do mean squatters) are being counterprotested by the Forces of Normalcy, who are quite sick of the Human Pathogen Roadshow.

Angry over all-day drumming, people urinating and defecating on the streets and verbal attacks from protesters, organizers say they will rally at City Hall Monday to send officials a message. …

Businesses have complained for weeks that the encampment is causing them to lose money, although a few have made money off the protests, as donors from all over the country have sent food from nearby restaurants to the movement.

Someone-- I forget who -- noticed that the national Democratic Party is just coincidentally distancing itself from Occupy as Democratic mayors begin pulling the plug on the mayhem.

posted by Ace at 01:56 PM

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