“The issue has been posed most starkly in Oakland, where a militant faction is openly courting conflict with a hostile police department, undermining public support and leading to sharp ideological divides. Some activists have formed separate groups dedicated to nonviolent methods, though tensions are not as acute elsewhere. Crimes reported in some of the camps in the fall also discredited the movement in the eyes of its critics.”
— The entirety of the “Oakland reporting” contributed by an actual New York Times reporter based in the Bay Area to this article on Occupy’s “next steps.” I don’t have the energy to be actually annoyed by this sort of crap anymore, now I’m just cataloging the awful.
