Update to this story. Same people whether they call themselves leftist, Occupiers or Ferguson protesters.
Via NY Post:
Authorities threw the book at a career anarchist who splashed red paint on Police Commissioner Bill Bratton during a Ferguson-linked march through Times Square on Monday night — and the top cop said he hopes the agitator’s next artwork comes behind bars.
“He is a professional agitator that I hope will soon be a professional resident of Riker’s Island if we have a successful prosecution for the assaults on myself and the eight officers,” Bratton said of Diego Ibañez, 26.
Bratton had just finished a quiet meal at a restaurant near the mayhem when he stepped outside to inspect his officers’ response, sources said. Almost immediately, he was then splashed in the head and face with the paint bomb on a pedestrian plaza between West 45th and 47th streets near the TKTS booth.