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Kid arrested and no one cares
After the San Francisco Anarchist Cafe tonight, a spontaneous street party/march emerged. Folks marched from the Cafe at 16th & Potrero down to Station 40 at 16th & Mission. The first half of the march was rad. We danced to the Brass Liberation Orchestra for a good 15-20 minutes before a single cop rolled up.
10 minutes later, a youth of color was detained and cited for Jaywalking. One kid was singled out from 50-100 marchers. This is standard. What's not is that the majority of the march (all but 15-20) kept moving. When one individual ran the 4 blocks the mass had marched away from the arrestee, and informed everyone that a kid was being arrested, he was met with "we know!" We had numbers. There were only 4 cop cars. I understand that the march was a party, not a protest, but fuck, man. Y'all would rather go to Station 40 to get drunk than support a comrade? I'm not saying everyone should've dearrested him (though we should've), but even standing to support him, or just chanting or really anything would have been better than abandonment. Y'all got issues. Fuck off and die.
Fuck Bay Area Anarchists. If y'all want kids to show up on Monday, to the Justin event or the Oscar grant event, get your fucking shit together.
Out.
10 minutes later, a youth of color was detained and cited for Jaywalking. One kid was singled out from 50-100 marchers. This is standard. What's not is that the majority of the march (all but 15-20) kept moving. When one individual ran the 4 blocks the mass had marched away from the arrestee, and informed everyone that a kid was being arrested, he was met with "we know!" We had numbers. There were only 4 cop cars. I understand that the march was a party, not a protest, but fuck, man. Y'all would rather go to Station 40 to get drunk than support a comrade? I'm not saying everyone should've dearrested him (though we should've), but even standing to support him, or just chanting or really anything would have been better than abandonment. Y'all got issues. Fuck off and die.
Fuck Bay Area Anarchists. If y'all want kids to show up on Monday, to the Justin event or the Oscar grant event, get your fucking shit together.
Out.
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Are there any witnesses to this that are not anonymous or pseudonymous? Where did it happen? Was the guy arrested or just given a ticket. If the latter, we can raise the money to pay it, if that becomes necessary.
Oh, and (A)-Fuck off. It's not like we don't have time to help kids getting fucked here as well as protest for Tristan.
amen to that! i don't have a beef with the movement, just some of the behavior of some of the people in it. as for being weak sauce - whatever, dude. while i think the op was a little harsh in their words, it's not without precedent or justification. solidarity and criticism can co-exist; in fact, both are needed to sustain a movement. what really takes sauce is hearing something that you don't to hear, if you get my drift.
You can apologize to my friend with the ski-mask! hahahahaha
Cheers! ! !
The guy making the comment is kind of making a big deal out of nothing. The cops have fucked with and abused people in a lot worse ways than this. The guy that night only was ticketed for jay walking. The cops may been fucking with people from the march because it was an anarchist march, but in the end: the guy was alright, they let him go with a citation. What were supposed to do anyways, start a riot? Over a jay walking ticket? However, I have seen this community turn their backs on people who have been abused by the police and by others. Sometimes I do get that feeling that some people within the anarchist community only really care about partying or having a good time.
Anyways, I also think that the guy who criticized him is being a little bit outrageous. I do not think that this is a COINTELPRO tatic of creating divisions. Not to say that police,govt. agents and right wing looneys don't troll around Indybay and make comments to spread rumors and create divisions and so forth, but I don't think this is one of them. What is with the mask by the way?