What happened tonight? Occupy Wall Street camps in (at least) Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis, Seattle, and Boston were all threatened with eviction and arrest. Police moved in with a show of force in the late hours… but only in Boston did they actually make arrests, and only to shut down camp #2.
So… what the hell? Police forces in five major cities all just happened to decide to make a major alpha-male display on the same night? And all backed down, except for Boston – where the cops took out the smaller, overflow camp.
This is weird. And creepy. And stinks of some kind of national coordination.
As Randi Harper (@freebsdgirl) tweeted:
Both the mayors from Boston and Seattle told us one thing, but the police followed different orders. Where did these orders come from?
Boston police used the lamest excuse in history for why they had to arrest the occupiers: “To protect the new delicate plantings in the park”. Watch this great video, which shows Boston police violently throwing demonstrators through the oh-so-delicate plantings they were protecting from those messy, inconsiderate occupiers:
Source: Red Green & Blue (http://s.tt/13uh2)
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