Undercover police spied on protesters at Occupy LA

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Undercover police officers infiltrated Occupy LA's tent city last month to spy on people suspected of stockpiling human waste and crude weapons for resisting an eventual eviction, police and city government sources have said.

Authorities said the covert surveillance was not aimed at anti-Wall Street activists exercising their constitutional right to freedom of expression but at those they considered anti-government extremists bent on violence.

The revelation came as police arrested dozens of people during a raid of an Occupy San Francisco encampment outside the Federal Reserve building early on Sunday.

San Francisco police Officer Albie Esparza says that at approximately 4am officers arrested about 55 people for illegal lodging.

full: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/11/undercover-police-spied-occupy-la

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1. I'm dying of NOT surprise.

This should be expected at any large protest.

[tawadi]

2. And the OWS protestors probably trust everyone

This doesn't surprise me as much as it just bugs me, for some reason.

[Octafish]

3. ''spy on people suspected of stockpiling human waste and crude weapons''

Doesn't sound like anybody I know in the 99 percent. Now I remember there were reports about the DC Madame supplying Mr. Cheney with specialists in that department.

[saras]

4. You don't need to stockpile it. Standard monkey technique - poop in hand, throw, repeat as needed

[formercia]

5. Did the Police find what they were looking for?

I think their argument for the spying was the only crap found.