WaPo Columnist as Apologist for the Police State

WaPo columnist Petula Dvorak is hailing the "professionalism" of the police (U.S. Park Police) who arrested protesters at Occupy DC, who refused to leave a structure they assembled at the occupation site.

Under the headline: Police maintain professionalism in Occupy D.C. confrontation, Dvorak tells us:

All day and into the night, the police were being taunted. Insults and sometimes water bottles were hurled their way. Cameras were pointed at them from every direction.

Yet, as they have done throughout the downtown drama known as Occupy D.C., the U.S. Park Police and D.C. officers displayed remarkable discipline and restraint Sunday during their confrontation with protesters in McPherson Square.

I was there. This simply did not happen. Although at times the occupiers chanted to the police that they (the police) were "part of the 99%, no insults were hurled at the police. And it is a complete outright lie to report that "water bottles were hurled their way".

Police in Standoff with Occupation DC Protesters

In the middle of last night, Occupy DC protesters constructed a large wooden structure at McPherson Square in Washington DC. The location is one of two in DC that occupiers have taken over. The occupiers planned to use the structure as their general assembly during the winter months.

When Park police discovered the structure in the morning, they ordered protesters to take it down. The occupiers refused and approximately two dozen moved into the structure in an attempt to prevent the structure from being taken down by Park perosnnel.

DC Metropolitan police and US Park police now have the structure surrounded. Those inside appear to fully expect they will be arrested. They are not going to make it easy, a few have climbed on the roof of the structure.

Some early arrests have been made of occupiers in the general crowd surrounding the structure, but it is not clear why these people were singled out.