BUSTED: Agent Provocateurs Outed at Bush/Harper/Calderon Summit

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Wed Aug-22-07 04:47 PM
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BUSTED: Agent Provocateurs Outed at Bush/Harper/Calderon Summit

Edited on Wed Aug-22-07 04:56 PM by Junkdrawer

Most times provocateurs succeed...Sometimes they're busted. Monday, they were busted.

OTTAWA � Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que. Such accusations have been made before after similar demonstrations but this time the alleged "agents provocateurs" have been caught on camera.

A video, posted on YouTube, shows three young men, their faces masked by bandannas, mingling Monday with protesters in front of a line of police in riot gear. At least one of the masked men is holding a rock in his hand. The three are confronted by protest organizer Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. Coles makes it clear the masked men are not welcome among his group of protesters, whom he describes as mainly grandparents. He urges them to leave and find their own protest location.

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The three do not appear to have been arrested or charged with any offence. Police confirm that only four protesters were arrested during the summit � two men and two women. All have been charged with obstruction and resisting arrest. Veteran protester Jaggi Singh, who is helping to circulate the video as widely as possible, said all four of those arrested are known to organizers and are genuine protesters.

"But we see very clearly in that video three (other) men being arrested . . . How do (police) account for these three people being taken in, being arrested? Where did they go?" Singh said

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/248608

Over at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2962268&mesg_id=2962268">the LBN thread, GliderGuider posted an excellent summary:

Their boots were identical to police issue.
Their age and size was inconsistent with that of other anarchists at this and other demonstrations.
Their deportment during the confrontation with the union leader.
Their refusal to remove their face masks.
Their refusal to leave the area when asked by the union leader.
One carried a rock up to police lines and was not challenged.
One appeared to engage a police officer in conversation immediately after they were named as police officers.
They pushed through police lines with great ease immediately after they were named as police officers.
The fact that they pushed through the police line at all, rather than just leaving the demonstration peacefully like any citizen could.
There was no sign of a struggle during their "arrest".
There was no reason either given or apparent for the "arrest"
At least one of their masks was not removed during the "arrest" (we don't know about the other two).
They walked off calmly to waiting police vehicles.
The police reported all arrests except these three.

Oh, here's a picture of the boots in question:

For the rest, just watch the video. Busted. Completely and totally busted.