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The Occupy movement is still looking for the big moment that the media – who are still largely sympathetic – can flog into an epochal, or at least society-altering, event. \u00a0It’s called a “Kent State Moment” – which, as Zombie at Pajamas Media notes<\/a>…:<\/p>\n

…when modern liberal pundits wish for an OWS \u201cKent State moment,\u201d they\u2019re not wishing for fatalities, but rather for the appearance of that one photograph which will reverberate around the world and forever establish the Occupiers as oppressed victims. It is the photograph, not the shootings, that is the \u201cKent State moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The "Kent State Moment".<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Dorothea Lange Moment<\/p><\/div>\n

So far, they haven\u2019t got it \u2014 not for want of trying. For the last several days The San Francisco Chronicle has helpfully featured a slide show of nominees on its Web site to hopefully stir up interest in one or another iconic martyr image, but so far, no Occupy photos have quite caught on, Kent State-style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here in Minneapolis, with our city’s long tradition of great regional theatre (and all the would-be actors that that scene draws to the city)?<\/p>\n

On Saturday, a group of “occupiers” went to the former (?) home of a U of M lecturer that’s been foreclosed for some time now, and, um, “occupied” it. \u00a0The police responded. \u00a0And as the first serious snow of the season fell, one of the dimmer bulbs among the “occupiers” decided to stand in the path of one of the cop cars.<\/p>\n

The cop opted to give the lad a nudge (as opposed to jumping from his car and cuffing him then and there which, to be fair, was what the young buck was looking for):<\/p>\n