Huffpo is reporting that several protesters, described as elderly, were maced by Columbus Ohio police today at the JP Morgan shareholder meeting and protests.
Police maced several elderly protesters Tuesday at JPMorgan Chase's annual shareholder meeting in Columbus, Ohio, according to activists present at the event.
Hundreds of people from dozens of community organizing groups swarmed the Tuesday meeting to demand the company overhaul its widely criticized foreclosure policies. JPMorgan Chase has improperly broken into the homes of its borrowers in order to pursue foreclosures and has been accused of robo-signing thousands of key foreclosure documents. Federal regulators slapped the company with a consent order over foreclosure problems earlier this year, and the federal government is currently contemplating filing charges that the company defrauded taxpayers with its foreclosure policies on government-backed loans.
In telephone interviews with HuffPost, multiple protesters complained of an overly aggressive police presence.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
One activist claimed that there seemed to be 10 police officers for every banker.
Firedoglakeand the local Columbus news are also reporting on the protests:
http://news.firedoglake.com/...
http://www.columbuslocalnews.com/
But its ok, since Jamie Dimon apologized....
Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chairman and chief executive officer, said he was sorry for foreclosure mistakes as hundreds of protesters at the annual meeting demanded he do more to help homeowners and small businesses recover from the financial crisis.
For any errors that were made, “we deeply apologize,” Dimon, 55, said today at the shareholders’ meeting in a 2- million-square-foot office building in Columbus, Ohio. “We are doing everything we can to keep people in their homes that should stay in their homes.” Dimon said he especially regretted the bank’s mistakes in foreclosing on active-duty military personnel and for fumbling paperwork on other home seizures.
http://www.businessweek.com/...
There's a spare bunk in the IMF chief's Riker cell that's perfect for Jamie Dimon.
The IMF guy screwed a maid, how many has JP Morgan screwed under Dimon?