Occupy Boston raid - again with the media suppression

Occupy Boston was raided this morning around 5 AM. Police did not wear riot gear, but brought in an LRAD (which wasn't used). Occupiers who planned to get arrested reportedly had been doing civil disobediance training for the last few days.

I also wonder about the impact on turnout of the Friday MSM stories claiming that Occupy Boston had already voluntarily closed (with only a few diehard left).

Two things really stuck out for me while watching the raid on livestream and Twitter feeds.
1. Media was again suppressed. 2. Police can be reached.

I'm posting a selection of Tweets focusing mainly on these two points. I'll start with events an hour before the raid.
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145417732286988288
http://twitter.com/LeFill/status/145427722355748864
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145428886568706048
The raid begins:
http://twitter.com/Fara1/status/145443560802623489
http://twitter.com/Occupy_Boston/status/145447429100154880
http://twitter.com/Occupy_Boston/status/145445876247166976
http://twitter.com/SamRichards10/status/145446675069153280
http://twitter.com/AyeshaKazmi/status/145454109233909760
http://twitter.com/AyeshaKazmi/status/145453609746833409
Boston Globe:
5:24 a.m.: The media have been forced to the sidewalk, and the police are restricting the number of video cameras that can approach the group of protesters who remain in the square.

http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145447234518003712
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145447441443979265
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145447693194506241
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145449374078599169
http://twitter.com/laurenfrohne/status/145449976137388032
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145449498926264320
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145452097960280064
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145452408439455744
http://twitter.com/lexikon1/status/145454690761588737

Boston Globe
5:50 a.m.: Robin Jacks [caukthewagon], 31, who had been in the encampment since its earliest days, wanted to be arrested even as she Tweeted about the unfolding police raid. Officers declined.
They made me leave,” Jacks told the Globe’s Akilah Johnson, disappointed. “I don’t want to leave. They said just Tweet it.”
A moment of solidarity had passed, and Jacks felt dejected as her friends were led away. “I feel kind of guilty not being arrested with them.”

http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145453824629415936
http://twitter.com/Occupy_Boston/status/145455827162107904
http://twitter.com/LeFill/status/145455696295636992
http://twitter.com/LeFill/status/145456323251806208
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145459232353951744
http://twitter.com/LeFill/status/145457063768768512
http://twitter.com/timeoutcorner/status/145458541828898817
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145462200532865024
http://twitter.com/ACLU_Mass/status/145457908358975488
http://twitter.com/kade_ellis/status/145456291907764224
http://twitter.com/ACLU_Mass/status/145460082241572864
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145459667248754688
http://twitter.com/OBWomen/status/145460207911309313
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145455026293309440
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145457525486125056
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145457901014753281
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145458041775595521
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145458164589010944
http://twitter.com/caulkthewagon/status/145465964711002113
http://twitter.com/ACLU_Mass/status/145463156142112768
http://twitter.com/Occupy_Boston/status/145456024000802817
http://twitter.com/arielshearer/status/145469572814876672

As a very active and core member of Occupy Boston and its media team, Caulkthewagon probably had considerable prior interaction with members of the BPD. When you've gotten to know someone and they're a decent human being, it's difficult (a least for non-psychopaths) to do harm to them. I also find myself thinking of OakFoSho - police who were treating other protesters abusively backed off when he addressed them - and though this was substantially due to the livefeed, I think his comportment also made a difference - exhibiting fundamental decency, neither fearful nor angry, firm voice, eye contact. That's been my own experience also in protests.

Final note. I saw the headline today on MSNBC "From an Arab Spring to a Russian Winter? Day of protests begins". Notice how they managed to avoid mentioning American Autumn?