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 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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on 11 Dec 2011 15:57 (UTC)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
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.