Plainclothes cop pulls gun on police brutality protesters in Oakland

[deutsey]

I'm not sure if this has been posted already.

http://mashable.com/2014/12/11/undercover-cop-oakland-protests/



A plainclothes police officer who had been gathering intelligence from protests in downtown Oakland Wednesday night aimed a gun at demonstrators after he and his partner were reportedly attacked by members of the crowd.

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KTVU reported that one of the demonstrators yelled "Hey, they're undercover, they're cops!" The officers, whose faces were masked in the style of the protesters who tend to incite violence, began walking away. The crowd followed, and one of the officers reportedly pushed a protester aside; the protester pushed the officer back.

In a press conference, Chief Avery Browne, CHP Golden Gate Division Commander, said the man who was arrested had punched one of the officers in the back of the head after pulling off his hoodie, which lead to the scuffle on the ground. A woman, Chief Browne said, also came out of the crowd and kicked the officer in the head, who was treated for "soft tissue injuries of the head" and "concussion-like injuries." She has not yet been apprehended, though police are working to identify her.

As the crowd was advancing on the officers, one apparently identified himself as police, tried to move the crowd back with his baton and, when it didn't respond, drew his service weapon, panning it across the crowd. (A reporter on the press call who said she was on the scene disputed that the officer identified himself, as plainclothes protocol requires when making an arrest.) The crowd then began to disperse and more police arrived on the scene.

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[peace13]

1. Wow officer, It's all fun and games until someone pulls your hoody off.

It must really stink to wake up and still be you. How many times are peaceful, legal demonstrations disrupted by undercover police officers. This picture says it all. Not so fun to be a trapped rat? Imagine if you were 16, black and were approached by the likes of you. Look how quickly you pulled your gun on a group of unarmed people. You forgot....hands up..don't shoot!

[TeeYiYi]

2. Another view...

...aiming at the photographer. Wtf...



TYY

[RedCappedBandit]

3. Honestly though what a little coward

Did he think to draw out his badge first? Aiming a gun like that into a crowd - fucking sickening.

[sabrina 1]

4. I guess he thought it was cool to spy on peaceful protesters. They are not

very good at this. During the OWS protests people spotted them regularly. And I remember in Canada when protesters saw one of them trying to make it appear it was the protesters who were vandalizing property, they tried to stop him, then realized he was wearing Police Boots under his 'disguise'.

I just assume that when there is vandalism at these protests now, it is the out of control 'undercover' cops who are doing it.

[deutsey]

7. I agree that many of them are cops

Otherwise, as someone pointed out here on DU, the Black Bloc must consist of magical elves who manage to elude police and vanish into thin air after creating their mischief.

[sabrina 1]

10. I know, they never got arrested. Journalists, elected officials, elderly women

everyone who was just peacefully protested, were arrested.

But the guys dressed in black, just vanished as you said.

Remember Oakland, after a long, peaceful day with nearly a quarter of a million protesters, it was after they nearly killed people, and there was huge outrage, the cops stayed away from that march that day.

Later than evening, after most of the people had gone home, a day with no violence because the cops weren't around too much.. But that evening when a few stragglers were on the street, peaceful, just talking, suddenly guys in black started breaking windows down the street, then they set some of it on fire. The cops didn't move. The peaceful stragglers were more threatening I suppose.

There were no arrests, the guys in black vanished into the night.

Instead of the headlines being 'Huge crowd from OWS marches all day, very little police presence, not one incident of violence reported' the headline was OWS protesters riot, break windows set furniture on fire' and the photos of the fire were all over the media.

Mission accomplished.

No wonder no one trusts them. They have earned that mistrust with their lies and deceptions and brutality.

[Live and Learn]

14. +1 nt

[NuclearDem]

5. Irony at its finest.

[stone space]

6. Can we say "Agents Provocateurs", yet?

The officers, whose faces were masked in the style of the protesters who tend to incite violence, began walking away.

[sabrina 1]

11. Lol! They were always at OWS, dressed in black, breaking windows, setting fires.

And they were never caught, unmasked or arrested. Just disappeared after they were sure the media photographed them.

[Orrex]

8. He's obviously protecting the crowd from those scary, scary black people

And he doesn't even have his finger on the trigger. Move along!

[RKP5637]

9. And cops wonder why many people F'en hate them, don't trust them and have

little respect for them.

[RandiFan1290]

12. Police Provocateurs stopped by union leader at anti SPP protest

Caught with the rocks in their fucking hands

[pinboy3niner]

13. Flashbacks...

1965...for a high school Boys' day event, I was Captain Commander of the LAPD Intelligence Division for a day, and I spent that day with Daryl Gates, who held that job them. The guy who was the master of infiltrating protests to gather intel, and who would later be called 'the father of SWAT" and rise to Chief of LAPD.

A vet buddy I met after the war who'd been involved in planning a huge antiwar protest on the National Mall. He was the delegate from Vietnam Veterans Against the War to meetngs between authorities and various protest groups in sadvance of the event.

My buddy came to learn, he told me, that more than half of the delegates from antiwar orgs were undercover cops from agencies at various government levels. He'd later run into a guy from those meetings in the market, and the guy (no longer undercover) would freely state that he'd been an undercover cop back then.

My buddy in that time was set up for a drug bust. That was the one thing he didn't delve into in the book he wrote (published in hardcover by Random House). I think the phony drug bust was used to turn my buddy into an informant on the movement, though he never spoke about that and never explained how he got out of the drug charge.