Right or wrong aside, burning a flag is a TERRIBLE way to protest.

[Generic Brad]

34. It is not possible for Oakland police to exercise restraint?

If I believed everything I read here on DU (not necessarily your post), I would have to come to the conclusion that the Oakland police are all cunning violent criminals, the flag burning was a set up, everyone in the leaderless OWS movement is 100% innocent of any wrong doing, when they do something wrong they are justified, and anyone who questions OWS methods are agents of the 1%.

Until there is definitive proof that the flag burning was a set up or more facts are known, I don't have enough information to construct an informed opinion of the images. That does not mean I don't get OWS or condone violence against protesters or disagree with the aims of the movement.

And with that said, I have undoubtedly condemned myself to multiple ignore lists.