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Police raided an apartment in Bridgeport, Chicago, on Wednesday night. They came in with guns and pointed them in the faces of nine activists who were staying in the apartment. They rounded these people up along with two other people, "Mo" and "Gloves," who are now suspected to be infiltrators. The activists' apartment was ransacked. Arrestees were disappeared for 18 hours before attorneys were able to locate the nine activists. Attorneys were not shown a search warrant initially. Chief McCarthy refused to talk about it. There were other raids that occurred in neighboring apartment units. Tenants were asked to provide information on what they knew about activists. The six activists, who were eventually released without charge, were threatened with terrorism charges and asked during interrogations to snitch on the movement or make false confessions. No evidence was shown to attorneys and disturbing allegations about the three individuals arrested in the raid, who are now charged with terrorism, were not shared with attorneys until they read them in the newspapers on Saturday morning just hours before a bond hearing. William Vassilakis, who leases the apartment, and Zoe Sigman of Occupy Chicago, who had been staying there, came home to her friends being rounded up. They didn't go home. The next day it was evident they knew they could become targets before the summit was over. Sigman told the media during a press conference, "We have been planning to protest NATO and there ...

  1. SonofBabilon
    Unfuckingbeliaveble ...This is like watching a Minority Report movie. I'm so sorry you people in US have to deal with this now... but you waited too long, you fed the beast for too long and let it grow too big. Time to do something before its too la
    June 23, 2012