It’s not the police’s fault.
In Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan used to be just such a rabble-rousing protester in her own younger days. Check her bio.
And now she’s openly sympathetic to OWS. She actually sent a Twitter tweet to the protesters to reassure them that the cops would not interfere!
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/282260/disorganizer-chief-patrick-brennan
She is siding with them over the Port of Oakland, despite the revenue that seaport brings into an otherwise poor city. And she’s the cop’s boss in this. She wants them to give the protesters as free a rein as possible.
This is a reprise of the 1960s, when liberal politicians refused to condemn the left-wing riots sweeping the country–because those rioters were against the Vietnam War and “racism” and so were the liberals. So the liberals gave them at best a slap on the wrist.
That’s how Nixon got elected President.
