On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> "I said that here in L.A. we'd chart a different path, and we did,"
>> Villaraigosa said.
>
> Hasn't nearly every mayor and police chief in Occupy cities said
> basically the same thing, right before they (basically) followed the
> same old path? On the first day of Occupy Austin, the police chief
> made a point of saying he wouldn't handle the occupations the way New
> York did, but within a couple of weeks he tried to clear the park.
Villaraigosa bragged about how the cops had made friends with the occupiers, so they didn't have to be as violent. Is that true? And did the occupiers just go peacefully?