I frankly haven't seen any credible evidence that the actions during the day led to anyone getting 'their head cracked open.' Maybe that evidence exists, but I certainly haven't seen it. The big police response was to a very focused building occupation, not the events of the day.
Additionally, there seem to be a lot of claims about the nature of the general strike that bear no resemblance to the general assembly's call, which emphasizes multiplicity and autonomous actions. And as Boots has pointed out, it translated in to a fairly remarkable success.
robert wood
> A gang of BB doing their thing in the middle of somebody else's action is
> aggression the action, pure and simple. It is tantamount to taking over a
> platform at a demo that someone else had organized. It's outrageous. It's
> using somebody else for human shields. Now if they want to go rob a bank
> and shoot up the tellers somewhere else that's a different matter. Stupid,
> immoral and suicidal, but it would be on their heads.
>
> The possibility that BBers are helping support the camp is irrelevant.
> They have to know that most people there are not coming to get beaten up
> for something somebody else might take it into his head to do. If they
> want to organize a gathering for people who aspire to be convicted felons,
> they should advertise it under those auspices.
>
> I've seen this shit before and it really gets under my skin.
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