Is this an agent provocateur being removed from the scene at G20?

[Junkdrawer]

Guys dressed in military fatigues removed a protester who was withnessed vandalizing a store.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWP9DhDIz64&feature=video_response


Officials with G20 security released the following statement to Raw Story and other media outlets:

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“Military members supporting the G20 Summit work with local law enforcement authorities but do not have the authority to make arrests. The individuals involved in the 9/24/09 arrest which has appeared online are law enforcement officers from a multi-agency tactical response team assigned to the security operations for the G20. It is not unusual for tactical team members to wear camouflaged fatigues. The type of fatigues the officers wear designates their unit affiliation.

Prior to the arrest, the officers observed this subject vandalizing a local business. Due to the hostile nature of the crowd, officer safety and the safety of the person under arrest, the subject was immediately removed from the area.”

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http://rawstory.com/2009/09/video-appears-to-show-us-troops-kidnapping-protester/

Do we have a name and address for the detainee?

[Junkdrawer]

1. Remember this? "Police provocateurs at Montebello Summit?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S1nHvvkzvA


Quebec provincial police admitted Thursday that three of their officers disguised themselves as demonstrators during the protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello, Que.

A YouTube video shows Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, ordering three masked men back from a line of riot police.

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Police came under fire Tuesday, when a video surfaced on YouTube that appeared to show three plainclothes police officers at the protest with bandanas across their faces. One of the men was carrying a rock.

In the video, protest organizers in suits order the men to put the rock down, call them police instigators and try unsuccessfully to unmask them.

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/08/23/police-montebello.html?ref=rss

[redqueen]

3. ...

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[backscatter712]

2. That's the piggies for you.

They're like that everywhere. They have zero respect for civil liberties. Zero respect for truth, and zero respect for basic human decency.

They're nothing but a gang of thugs with a government license to commit acts of terrorism.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. +1!

And almost no one seems to care.

[Kievan Rus]

9. Cops = swine

K&R.

When I saw videos of the pigs marching through the University of Pittsburgh, "the Imperial March" immediately started playing in my head.

[redqueen]

5. Also, K&R #5.

Thanks for posting this.

[clear eye]

6. I'm more interested in how members of the military magically become "a multi-agency tactical

response team", thus neatly evading posse comitatus. For the past year for the first time since Reconstruction and the passage of posse comitatus we now have military permanently assigned to Northcom (in Colorado) and trained to subdue civilians w/o killing them allegedly to deal w/chaos on a massive scale in a natural disaster or terrorist attack. Now we see them brought into a situation to prevent such an occurrence before it has happened. And our Constitutional scholar of a President sees nothing wrong with this. I guess we are now along the road to a military dictatorship, and our elected leaders are allowing it to progress w/o a word of objection.

[Junkdrawer]

8. I think what they prevented was his arrest....In Seattle...

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And suddenly there appeared a group, some 100 strong perhaps, in masks and black clothes, who went around breaking shop windows and looting, and engaged in some mayhem.

The police did not apprehend even one of them -- if they had, and as per US police procedures had been fingerprinted, perhaps their links with some agencies would have come out -- and the perpetrators remain mysterious and named as "anarchists".

To this writer, they seemed more like the agent provocateurs who joined in and created the unruly demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention that led to the election of Republican President Nixon. There certainly were agent provocateurs around Seattle, but whether of some government agency or the equally powerful big business corporations, only time will show.

For two days, 30 Nov, 1-2 December, the organized protestors took over control of the streets, the police used tear gas and pepper spray, and declared curfew to regain control over the streets, and the National Guard was called in, but to the end participants at the conference were subject to siege conditions. And all this was used by US negotiators and Bill Clinton himself in a lunch address, to persuade and arm-twist delegations to gain two commitments -- one to bring in the labour standards issue into the WTO, and another, to use the environment issue to open the dispute panel proceedings to the environment NGOs, who believe they can present amicus curae briefs and change the views of panels (and perhaps collect more money from their constituents).

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http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/theatre-cn.htm

[clear eye]

10. Maybe so. Makes them even less legit.

Now besides being military where they don't belong, they're engaging in dirty tricks. I guess since they aren't officially operating under military leadership, we have to call them "paramilitary". Paramilitary! Here, in the USA. This is so wrong, in so many ways.

[armyowalgreens]

13. We don't even know that those people were members of the military...

They weren't even wearing current fatigues.

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. 4 guys, 4 different color camos... hmmm.

Besides, there was another post in another thread that identified the four as private security contractors.

[cliffordu]

7. Oh, I see, like the Iranian secret police.

Or were those fuckers Blackwater???

[Joanne98]

11. No name yet.

[Junkdrawer]

12. Saturday night kick

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