Sunday, May 20, 2012

Twisted Protesters Or Crooked Cops?

Which is it?

Wednesday night’s bizarre warrantless raid on an apartment building in Chicago and the rounding up of a number of “suspected protesters” took another turn for the odd today, when officials revealed that three of the captives are now being charged with terrorism.

The allegation is that some of the protestors were intending to use beer bottles (apparently there was actual beer-making equipment where the bottles were seized) to make Molotov cocktails.

There is also an allegation of actual police misconduct:

Michael Deutsch, the lawyer for the three detainees, says that they were all non-violent protesters and that of the people “arrested” that night (most of whom were released without charges) two were actually undercover police there to “egg on” the protesters to move from non-violent to violent action.

If true that changes the character of things materially, doesn't it?

So what really happened?

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