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In reply to the discussion: And Then There Were Three: Third Grand Jury Refuser Goes to Prison [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)a protest is going along peacefully, another example was the day long over one hundred thousand people protest in Oakland to shut down the ports, and there is no sign of violence, suddenly a few guys dressed in black will show up. As you pointed out in your comment and many others have observed, for some reason, the cops never seem to 'catch' these guys even when they are right next to them.
There are have been numerous such incidents. Eg, on the evening of the Oakland protests I mentioned above, I was watching when late in the evening, after almost all the protesters were gone home with no incidents of violence, (maybe because the police had been told to stay back after they nearly killed two people a few days before), suddenly this group of people dressed in black started vandalizing a store and some garbage dumpsters. They got the maximum effect by setting a fire in the middle of the street which of course, would be used to show how the protests 'became violent' later. Nothing could have been further from the truth.
The cops made no arrests despite being there airc. I remember asking later if anyone knew of any of the vandals had been arrested because OWS keeps track of all arrests. But surprisingly there were no reports of who those people were.
I think at this point after watching so many of these 'incidents', most people know what is going on. Police are not going to arrest their own, are they?