There’s accounts of these cops banging on bank windows before the T-mobile store window was broken.
@Federal_flashes @DaveId those are the ones who were hitting bank windows before T-Mobile got looted! #berkeleyprotests
From the linked storify:
@marymad livetweeted the California Highway Patrol conference call Dec
11 2014, that addressed last night’s incident where two undercover CHP
officers were outed by the crowd in which they had been marching with
during the evening.
From marymad:
CHP calls them plainclothes not undercover. They have been using them since the protests broke out. #oaklandprotest
They were wearing masks. After someone took off one of their masks, he put it back on. There’s reason to doubt that this is what plains clothes means.
One arrested for public intoxication “out of the group” - no names and booking info for that and other arrest. #oaklandprotest
So after watching them loot from the inside they took a person in for public intoxication?
This was your point wasn’t it? They didn’t take anyone in for attacking cops, so maybe it didn’t happen?
FTA: http://www.ktvu.com/story/27606016/undercover-cop-pulls-gun-on-demonstrators
One Berkeley resident, Dylan, who declined to give his last name, said he pulled off the officer’s bandana.
The two CHP officers started to walk away, but the protesters persisted,
screaming at the two undercover cops. One of the officers pushed a
protester aside. The man responded by pushing back and then the officer
tackled him to the ground, handcuffing him.
…
“I’m a white man, and I pulled off (the officer’s) mask, but they punched a black man,” Dylan said. “He got arrested.”
Seems to me that you mean to say that both civilians and cops should get the benefit of the doubt, but that’s not what you’re doing is it?
Look, you dismiss civilians, and let other people dismiss cops, that way we get a balanced story! Seems fair.
I think this is one point where most people can at least agree: People don’t seem to trust cops.
How does trust work? Is trust owed or earned? Can you forgive without any remorse in sight?
