Jonah's Arrest

Given the propensity of the police to
arrest activists for arbitrary reasons--jaywalking, marching in the street
without a permit, wearing masks--a technique is required to keep activists
out of jail. Unarresting an activist(s) is quite simple: when an activist is
arrested, the bloc of anarchists acts swiftly to pull that person free from the
cops. Sometimes a tugging match is required to free the activist, but if you
have the element of surprise, you can usually be successful because the cops
are so shocked that activists aren't playing the game correctly (i.e. negotiating
their own imprisonment).

An important point to bear in mind: unarresting is an illegal activity. Don't
get arrested trying to free somebody or you could face some serious charges.
It's important to weigh the benefits of unarresting a person (this is hard to do
in the heat of the moment). Obviously, unarresting a person is more
important if the arrested person has done something that would lead to felony
charges. Play to win!

I remember back at the DC inaguration in '00 when the Black Bloc got surrounded by the police and the only thing that saved them was a march of angry democrats that happened to show up at the right moment and hugely outnumber the police. while certainly kids with of the BB tendency train to do this, I just thought I'd point out that us Anarchos don't have the monopoly on unarresting.

It also looked to me like someone tried to unarrest someone here, but I can't make it out very well. could someone give a narration of what hapened here? It also looks like there were plainclothes cops in the march, that helped arrest.

I remember back at the DC inaguration in '00 when the Black Bloc got surrounded by the police and the only thing that saved them was a march of angry democrats that happened to show up at the right moment and hugely outnumber the police. while certainly kids with of the BB tendency train to do this, I just thought I'd point out that us Anarchos don't have the monopoly on unarresting.

It also looked to me like someone tried to unarrest someone here, but I can't make it out very well. could someone give a narration of what hapened here? It also looks like there were plainclothes cops in the march, that helped arrest.

there are a least 3 undercovers that can be seen in the video. any unarrest attempts that were made were quickly stopped by uniformed police, which soon arrived to provide a buffer around the arrest.