Exactly! They were pulled off the street hours before the major marches/protests/actions, and released the next day when it was too late to participate on the ground.
So someone would post an event on Facebook, get 1000 people to show up at the Brooklyn Bridge or what have you, and then all 1000 of them would stand around saying "who's in charge here?" because the actual organizer was in police custody! Occupy was dismantled in the public eye very effectively using this tactic.
So someone would post an event on Facebook, get 1000 people to show up at the Brooklyn Bridge or what have you, and then all 1000 of them would stand around saying "who's in charge here?" because the actual organizer was in police custody! Occupy was dismantled in the public eye very effectively using this tactic.