Occupy movement makes camp in Ithaca
  • Ithaca -- Six tents lined up along the bushes on the south edge of DeWitt Park in Ithaca on Tuesday comprise the start of Ithaca's very own Occupy movement encampment, following the template of the larger protest that began in New York City's Financial District in September....

    The group also announced they were renaming the park Shawn Greenwood Park. Greenwood was shot and killed by an Ithaca police officer in February 2010 when he tried to evade arrest on drug charges. A special investigator found Greenwood tried to drive a vehicle over an officer during the attempted arrest and was shot by another officer trying to stop him.

    Greenwood had served two prison terms on convictions for assault, criminal weapons possession, and drug offenses. He had told a judge he had found few other options in Ithaca.


More on Greenwood here. Basically, he was a drug dealer who got shot while trying to kill a couple of cops.

Naming your camp after a drug dealing wannabe cop killer... yeah, that doesn't discredit your movement at all.