parts of the lex o'brien who's behind the website which helped the first occupy wall street protests assemble miss o'brien do you think this crackdown seems like a proportionate response to what protestors are doing and understandably we don't your position in that matter maybe the protesters have been provoking police as well is that is that a possibility. no it isn't a possibility i mean if if you look at what's been going on since september seventeenth you've seen really just stellar behavior on the part of protestors and i take issue with the word activists it's not to say that there aren't activists that are part of the occupy wall street movement but most of these people are actually citizens they're normal citizens like you and me who are concerned about the level of corruption in our government and you know they're coming to the civic square to try to find solutions because there are no solutions in traditional avenues ok and this. has become a worldwide protest is happening in a lot of other cities but most reports of police brutality we're seeing are coming from the us why