July 18, 2005
G8 Protest Fallout
Hey, remember the kids rampaging through the streets of the Mission, smashing the state one window at a time? Well, it ain't quite over yet. First off, at least one protestor who's still in custody needs help coming up with the $5,000 needed to post bail -- you can send a donation! Us, we would call Bad Boy Bail Bonds (they speak our language -- funky-fresh rappin').
On the other side of the coin, "The Man," AKA Heather Fong, has reassigned deputy chief and Mission Station veteran Greg Suhr because he seems to have decided to pull the riot squad off the streets right before two officers got trapped in the melee, and Officer Peter Shields went down with a head wound.
And finally, while this isn't exactly related to the G8 protests, it sure is interesting. Carol Norris of Code Pink wrote a forum piece published last week in the Chronicle detailing how the state's National Guard unit was gathering intelligence on Code Pink during their many protests of the Governor after he was elected. State Senator Joe Dunn, D-Garden Grove, is calling for an investigation into how much the CHP spends on protecting the governor and whether or not the National Guard was spying on American citizens.
Chronicle photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez.
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All politics aside, why are these ***holes beating up cops and smashing windows. The only people who are hurt by window smashing, are the people who have the same problems as you just trying to get by, and now they have to pay for a broken window on top of it. nice move. meanwhile the groups you are protesting remain unaffected.
why was the cop beat up. does that affect any meaningful change either? no. it just makes you look like ***holes, and focuses peoples attention from whatever your cause is. I wouldn't bail out someone for beating up a cop. I'd sooner donate to the cops hospital bill (whether or not i agreed with your cause). A head wound is no joke. they made their bed they should sleep in it. That has nothing to do with politics.
I'm not trying to insult anyone, even though my tone may be a little harsh, but if you think about what I'm saying, you'd see just how counterproductive breaking windows and beating up cops is.
Loser hippy douchebags