undercover police officers infiltrated the Black Bloc with the express purpose of provoking violent retaliation against the peaceful protesters by the massed ranks of law enforcement. The tactic in this case has expanded to the more or less open detonation of incendiary devices in public space,
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(protesters arrested were taken to a)
cavernous warehouse (and later learned was, of all things, a film studio), along one side of which were a series of pens, like animal cages, immediately reminiscent of the facilities at Guantanamo Bay.
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(the protesters)
soaking wet due to the weather, had to sleep, shivering, on a bare concrete floor as the temperature in the building dropped to maybe a few degrees Centigrade. Can you say pneumonia? While being moved around, I caught a glimpse of what looked like maybe 17 or 18 year old girls, huddled together in a quivering mass like sheep in a snowstorm, as one friend, having seen the same thing, described it. By MATT SHULTZ
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