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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