At least one cop will go down for his actions

The Oakland police appear way out of control in a variety of ways.
I will view my own press pass with a little less credibility. Its a reminder that government really does not want transparency .

The police chief - and, indeed, anyone who speaks to their reporters - would do well to tell these stenographers to power exactly what they want to hear: they’re going to write the same story anyway, no matter what they’re told, and you *really* don’t want to be written into the wrong side of the story and get driven out of office.

As a public official, the measure of his character is the degree of reluctance or relish he displays (or coceals) in telling the necessary lies; and maybe you can ask him - off the record and *never* to be alluded to - what kind of man will replace him if he doesn’t perform. Wicked and cowardly as I believe him to be, there are far worse individuals behind him, and his flawed leadership is all that stands between the protesters and extrajudicial execution. Or murder, as we call it in countries with a free press.

Meanwhile, stay safe. Remember: if you end up in hospital in a coma, anybody who conducts a vigil on the steps with such instruments of terror and sedition as a candle and a prayerbook could die, or be beaten up by thugs with riot batons *who will be praised as defenders of America’s freedom* in blogs and letters to the press and in the speaker meetings of our elected representatives.