Oakland police played by the Mayor?

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Mr Khan said:

deskpro2k3 said:
i think they want to put undercover agents in the protest and assume leading roles in the movement. then break them up from the inside out.

That would be viciously illegal, since the Occupy movement's criminality is, as a whole, sporadic, and the illegal acts they commit are isolated (large in number, but on the whole committed by individuals of the group and not the group itself), and it would be tremendously illegal to infiltrate a peacable organization to deliberately disrupt its activities, especially if such activities are about expression

Now they could have moles in the group to weed out the troublemakers from the group at large, but they couldn't be agitating internally within the group

It would also be kinda pointless.  I mean the movement already is screwed up enough in Oakland to attack the police.

It's just a political play through and through.

She's a first run mayor elected in 2010 who was accused of joining the protests against the killing of Oscar Grant by a transportation officer.

So really she likely used force to show she wasn't "with the protestors", but relented when her demos went against her, and because well.... she's with the protestors.