Will These Two Videos Absolve The Arrested Brooklyn Bridge Protesters?

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Last night we reported on the 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters who got arrested for marching on and obstructing the Brooklyn Bridge.

Some have apparently claimed entrapment by the police (who encouraged them to walk on the road), but the people we talked to last night mostly suggested that the police merely stood by and watched, not encouraging them, but not stopping them either.

So far we've seen no evidence of police actually encouraging protesters to go on the road, but there are videos that show police walking in front of the protesters, as they go up onto the road.

This isn't the same as encouraging them to go on the road, but on the other hand, you could see why people in a crowd would think that going on a bridge is kosher if the police are calmly walking in front of the crowd as they go up the road.

Here are two videos. The first, via Andrew Krucoff, is very short and shows the police clearly leading the way at the very start of the protesters entering the bridge.

The second video is longer, and doesn't show the moment of entry, but goes a little further in terms of the police walking in front of the protesters.

Anyway, we're curious your take. This doesn't look like entrapment to us, but it seems that if the police were going to throw a net around 700 protesters once they got to the middle, there's little reason for the police to be at the front of the pack entering the bridge.

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Brooklyn Ad Agency Risks Reputation With "Tea Party Zombies Must Die" Pet Project

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An online game called "Tea Party Zombies Must Die," produced by Brooklyn creative agency Starvingeyes, might provoke boycotts from the right over the game's targeted violence against conservative figures, AdWeek reports.

Starvingeyes head Jason Oda made the game as a personal project, unrelated to work the agency has done for Pepsi, UPS, Nascar and other major brands.

Despite talk of boycott from Mike Huckabee and others, Oda told Media Research Center he isn't worried about the game negatively impacting his business.

If all publicity really is good publicity, then Oda may be right. This viral game has gotten an incredible amount of press.

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There Is Some Pretty Serious Flooding In Red Hook, Brooklyn

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Red Hook is a neighborhood in south-western Brooklyn that juts out into the waters below the southern tip of Manhattan. 

It's been getting a lot of media coverage in recent months for its hip restaurants and shops.

It's also where New York's Fairway and Ikea stores are located.

The entire neighborhood is in Zone A and was required to evacuate by 5pm yesterday.  

Today you can see why. 

While the flood waters didn't reach to far into the neighborhood, when I biked down there this morning entire intersections were under water.

I snapped some pictures.

Fairway, which had its shelves stripped bare on Friday, now appears to be under water.

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Around the corner from Fairway. Water was deepest here.

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Intersection of Van Brunt and Bowne.

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Van Brunt and Commerce.

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However, the signs in Red Hook are the best in city.

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Servicey!

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Now see what New York City looked like as Irene was passing through >>>

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