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In reply to the discussion: pictures from Columbia University [View all]LeftInTX
(26,123 posts)The cops told them to clean up their garbage and get their stuff off the street and that they needed to protect the area. The group yells "Move back. Move back" to the cops.
The police told protesters: "This is a police zone. If you want space, you can go here or here. If you stay here you will be arrested."
They purposely antagonized the cops and saying "Leave us alone. Go back to where you were".
I wouldn't be surprised if they touched the cops first. (video is heavily edited and out of sequence)
The cops then begin to cuff this unruly group.
They then try to make themselves look like victims with shouts "What are you doing to me? I'm just standing on the sidewalk! You can't arrest us! Help! Help! Help! You're hurting me!! " They're howling like monkeys.
They were charged with resisting arrest. One was arrested for assaulting a cop.
Obviously this type of stuff becomes something other than the original purpose of the protest.
I wouldn't quite call them outside agitators, but they sure as hell wanted to create a scene.
This one here was spitting on the cop.
Video is heavily edited and events are out of sequence