berkeley mayday

[C P]

I think it might be rewarding to follow the top story on the Berkeley mayday 
reclaim the Streets event yesterday evening at http://sf.indymedia.org

particularly
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/05/125609.php
and I don't know, but I might have found a photo with the undercover officer 
which is towards the end of this newswire thread
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/05/125581.php


What happened, was that the RTS occurred quite smoothly but with quite high 
police presence. there were up to 20 officers at various intersections, and 
that would just represent a fraction of the total number of officers 
patrolling the entire event at any moment. it was really cold and the crowd 
was pretty countercultural at first, starting at UC Berkeley, but then 
picked up a lot of more people along the way. they/we took a bit 
intersection in an upscale neighborhood and had a very cheery maypole dance 
and did sidewalk chalk and had music. then the police cleared everyday away. 
about 12 blocks down the street, this individual who had been observed 
mumbling into his black block handkerchief mask and not speaking with anyone 
else there grabbed a ~18 year old 'punk' and dragged him quite a few feet 
and threw him into the police line at Fulton & Ashby. then the black bloc 
person calmly wandered behind police lines and sat down, and then sauntered 
off as a prominent indymedia journalist (who was reporting from Dheisheh 
camp a couple weeks ago) tried to photograph him and then was also arrested. 
All of this was captured in video of Jason Meggs, and still pictures are 
posted on the site. A few months ago, Meggs' video of the Chevron WTO-based 
protest permitted his ex-roommate Ryan to be released from jail where he had 
been kept for four days on $50,000 bail on serious 'assault on an officer' 
felony charges, but then the videotape clearly showed that he had merely run 
nearby to an officer but hadn't touched him at all.

the beginning of mayday was a lot of fun though. they let us do a lot more 
than Seattle police ever permit.

Christine



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