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In reply to the discussion: So tell me, ...what did this guy do to deserve it? [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)because you seem to be very misinformed frankly. Black bloc are not part of OWS and, btw, as far as I know none of them were even apprehended, in Oakland eg. The police seemed uninterested in detaining them that night in October, they arrived after nearly everyone else had left, set a few garbage cans or something on fire. Police got their photos but no one was arrested. In fact, rather than go after THEM, most of the cops hung around the few stragglers left over from the huge march earlier that day.
There has also been video of undercover police caught returning to their vans and some of Feds posing as protesters, returning to the Federal Building. They weren't very good at pretending to be protesters so they were followed and photographed using their keys to enter the Fed Bldg. More video of one cop who had hung out for days at an encampment, and then video of him in his cop uniform. When asked why he had pretended to be a protester, he walked away, but later wrote a blog post claiming he really was a supporter of the movement and was there in his spare time. Lol!
Thank god for video or people, probably even you, would be claiming the protesters were making this all up.