ext_169494 ([identity profile] jessiehl.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] juldea 2011-12-11 03:57 pm (UTC)

My thoughts on this:

People did dance in the street, but the dancing was peaceful (though there was a report of some douche within the dance party who squirted red paint on both protesters and police officers, which made nobody happy). It sounds, from [livejournal.com profile] juldea's description, like this guy was trying to incite more problematic behavior than merely non-violent dancing. Dancing is one thing even if it's civil disobedience in the process. Locking the South Station door is a lot more problematic. Crushing the flower beds, something we have explicitly promised to avoid doing during the course of the OB camp, is a lot more problematic.

It is, of course, possible that the guy was just a dick. Especially because there were a lot of people there (I was there as well) who have not previously been Occupy Boston participants. But there has been some holy-shit hideously sketchy behavior from verified undercovers.

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