Via Washington Examiner:
From The New York Timeson down, every mainstream media outlet reporting on the Occupy Oakland Riots wants us to believe that the general strike was “orderly” and “peaceful” and that only a “belligerent fringe group” destroyed property and incited violence later in the night. But as The Oakland Tribune’s live-blog of the protests shows this is just plain false:
Milani, a camper who did not want to give a last name, spoke against apologizing to businesses. She said it wasn’t just outsiders committing vandalism.
“The person I saw putting toilet paper up, they’re a facilitator at the general assembly. The person spray painting, they’re on the events committee.”
All of these mainstream outlets also failed to report that the night before the general strike, the Occupy Oakland General Assembly adopted a resolution in support of occupying abandoned/foreclosed buildings. The major violence Wednesday night didn’t start until protesters started doing just that.