Police: 12 arrested after protester hits officer with frying pan

Chicago Tribune ^ | June 07, 2012 | Ryan Haggerty, Naomi Nix and Peter Nickeas

[Tarantulas]

A protester charged with hitting a Chicago police officer over the head with a frying pan Wednesday night on North Michigan Avenue was ordered held today in lieu of $50,000 bond. Gary C. Wagaman, a 30-year-old Michigan resident, appeared in Cook County bond court this afternoon wearing blue jeans and a dark blue T-shirt that was ripped open beneath his left shoulder. He shook his head as he walked away from the bench after Judge James R. Brown announced the bond amount. Wagaman is one of 12 protesters who were arrested after a scuffle with police on North Michigan Avenue at Ohio Street that left five officers injured, including the officer Wagaman allegedly hit with the frying pan, authorities said.

[Revolting cat!]

Yeah, can ya imagine going through life with your name the same as a celebrity’s? I used to know a guy whose name was Elvis Presley. Boy, did he suffer!

[12Gauge687]

Cast iron is out for the Occupy weasels - too heavy. Although, for vesatility, there’s nothing like a Lodge Dutch oven.

[Slings and Arrows]

I knew a guy with first name of Forrest. The Gump movie did him no favors.

[12Gauge687]

Cast iron is out for the Occupy weasels - too heavy. Although, for vesatility, there’s nothing like a Lodge Dutch oven.

[ozzymandus]

I stand corrected. He’s a 1%er.

[STD]

Hardly, did U see a picture of the ugly clown? As a member of the Waitstaff, paying attention to detail is what gets you tips. I don’t see self-fixated, selfish, lazy and boorish souls profiting handsomely from tipping. Of course, the Pizza’s remarkable, but once again it’s all in the delivery.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I was just thinking what would have happened if he had tried to bop a cop in AZ. Only a desperate criminal, an insane person, or somebody who had just arrived from out of state would try to do that. The officer would not inquire as to his motives, either, before ventilating him.

About the only time they wouldn’t, would be if they were so obviously drunk or addled that they couldn’t see straight, and if the cop had a Taser handy.

This actually prevents a lot of violence, because protestors know ahead of time that bopping cops is right out.

[CrazyIvan]

I knew a Jim Beam in college. He told me he got called Jack Daniels a lot!

[Talisker]

Exactly correct image. Think about it - what 30 year old man brings a frying pan to a protest? It's not something a guy would think of using as a weapon of choice, and it's not something that would be brought with any other purpose than to hit someone with. So why deliberately choose to bring a frying pan to hit someone at a protest?

Soccer moms.

Liberals live by group association. Individual human beings cannot comprehend how completely liberals see themselves as their groups, and not as individual people. Group identity is literally their life, and group exclusion is literally their death.

So, when a 30 year old man uses a weapon at a protest made from a kitchen implement that soccer moms use, then - soccer moms used the weapon a the protest. In the group-identity minds of soccer moms, this becomes reality.

But why use a frying pan and not something else? Because a woman with a frying pan is used in humor, and humor covers up the associative programming.

So the result is that soccer moms identify with this protest, and with the idea of protesting violently and even getting arrested for it. The group has ordered and approved of it, because, in their minds, they already did it themselves.

This is reality. This is what liberal women have become - programmable zombies. For real. Dismiss it as fantasy, and you won't a have clue as to what is going on all around you.

Because THIS is Hillary's Army.

[Boogieman]

Well I said you could make that much in tips, not that he necessarily did. Heck, he could be the dishwasher for all I know.

[Navy Patriot]

Yep, these people do default to leftist liberal groupthink, and one group is child years female leftist liberal.

The choice of protest tool often does seem to represent pandering to a specific group, as glitter bombing must be designed to pander to gays if the bomber is not gay himself. I see your point.