A story I came across stated a police motorcyclist ran over the foot of one protester who instinctively shoved the officer. While the individual was arrested, he was later released without charges.

http://www.krdo.com/news/29628019/detail.html

The ugly side of government brutality would once again reveal itself.

And the media will portray the protesters as provocateurs, hippies, drug addicts and derelicts.

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny" - Thomas Jefferson

The demonstrators will push until they get a reaction, an overreaction.  That is the plan.  Not everybody of course is in on the plan, but the leaders are for sure.

The police will "act professionally" until they get tired or mad, and then they will "push back."

Then we have headlines and pictures at 6PM which is what the demonstrators want.  Always.

Just like last time, and the time before, and the time before, ...

What did I do, asked Occupie?  We have blue laws and you are a law-breaker with whom we have run out of patience, said a officer while wielding his baton.  Well, what about Tri-corner and Wally, you are leaving them alone.  That's different, said another cop--Tri-corner is a real American--and very focused, he is against a lot of things--abortion, gays,and  government except for his Medicare.  

And there's the rub: The "model" civilization that's sprung up at Zuccotti is itself increasingly divided between the stakeholders in the nascent movement who feel invested in the emerging economic, social and cultural causes of "the 99%," and hangers-on, including a fast-growing contingent of lawbreakers and lowlifes, many of whom seem to have come to Zuccotti in the last week with the cynical encouragement of the NYPD.

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Every protest scene or dissent park draws from a dark carnival element, and Zuccotti has had members of this group since the first week of its occupation. But the swelling ranks of freeloaders and disturbed characters in the last few days has pressed the working group members who've organized the protest and so far kept it from going off the rails to refine their ideas about just how open their movement should be.

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The number of non-participants taking advantage of the resources that the activists have provided -- free food, clothing, tarps and sleeping bags, hand-rolled smokes and even books, not to mention a sense of protection from the police, who have increasingly left the park to protect itself - has exploded over the past week, and is threatening to define the occupation itself and overshadow its political and social ambitions. Despite those resources, "spanging" (spare-changing, or panhandling) at Zuccotti has become commonplace, as have fights, near-fights and open-air drug sales.

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The watch, though, has only powers of persuasion and pressure to try and enforce the rules, and no way to remove people from a public park. The police, whom many occupiers see as the enemy and who work under a mayor who's made no secret of his distaste for the occupiers, have little reason to help them maintain order, and rarely seem to have entered the park over the last week for anything short of an assault. When officers have gone in, a wave of people carrying drugs (or with other reasons to fear arrest) moves away from them while others circle tightly around, cameras out. Even when organizers have requested their intervention, police enter to a mixed chorus of "brutality" and "pig" calls side by side with chanted reminders that "you are the 99%."

But while officers may be in a no-win situation, at the mercy of orders carried on shifting political winds and locked into conflict with a so-far almost entirely non-violent protest movement eager to frame the force as a symbol of the oppressive system they're fighting, the NYPD seems to have crossed a line in recent days, as the park has taken on a darker tone with unsteady and unstable types suddenly seeming to emerge from the woodwork. Two different drunks I spoke with last week told me they'd been encouraged to "take it to Zuccotti" by officers who'd found them drinking in other parks, and members of the community affairs working group related several similar stories they'd heard while talking with intoxicated or aggressive new arrivals.