The unidentified demonstrator allegedly threw rocks at law enforcement and damaged government vehicles, the FBI said.

As tense anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles enter their fourth day, federal officers have ramped up law enforcement’s response – and have added one protester to the FBI’s ‘Most Wanted list.’

The unidentified demonstrator has been accused of assaulting a federal officer and damaging government property during Saturday’s protest in Paramount, a city 30 miles south of Los Angeles.

The suspect allegedly threw rocks at law enforcement on Alondra Boulevard around 3:30 p.m. Saturday, “injuring a federal officer and damaging government vehicles,” according to the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. It was not immediately clear whether the officer was injured or the extent of the damage.

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    If your point is just that agent provocateurs are not in the same vein as little green men then we are in agreement.

    most of the people there engaging in violence would be conspirators regardless of why they were there.

    The distinction I’m making is the “secret/secretly” part of the definition. A protest is not meant to be secret, infiltrating one is.

    naive defense of police

    Why do you perceive combatting the myth of ‘police as tactical geniuses who are highly adept at infiltrations’ as defense of police?

    My argument is simply that an individual demonstrating agency in a stressfull moment seems far more likely than an elaborate 5d chess tactical trap set by police. Do you believe that during a protest, individual agency no longer exists?

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      If your point is just that agent provocateurs are not in the same vein as little green men then we are in agreement.

      After saying over and over, you seem to have finally gotten it! Congratulations!

      You vastly overestimate how much effort it takes to “wear jeans and a t shirt, go over there and throw stuff”.

      Up until now you haven’t mentioned anything about any myths you’re combating, so… You kinda just came across as someone standing up for the noble police who would never stoop to trickery to find an excuse for violence.
      When your argument consistently lines up with the actual fascists, people might mistake you for one when you give no other context. (Consistently arguing that it’s protestors causing violence is literally the argument being used to justify violence). Doubly so when you respond to the hint that left protest organizers try to keep violence in check, so it’s notable when it does happen with a “why do you think protest violence is impossible?”.
      Makes you sound like a bootlicker toeing the line.

      My argument is…

      I don’t care. Basically everything else you wrote is arguing against something I never said or implied.

      Do you believe that during a protest, individual agency no longer exists?

      Do you believe that using strong language and massively over exaggerating the slightest wrong interpretation of what someone said, or what you’d rather they had said, makes you the literal second coming of rhetorical Jesus?

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        came across as someone standing up for the noble police who would never stoop to trickery to find an excuse for violence.

        How did you get that? No, fuck the police and peace police too.

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          When your argument consistently lines up with the actual fascists, people might mistake you for one when you give no other context. (Consistently arguing that it’s protestors causing violence is literally the argument being used to justify violence). Doubly so when you respond to the hint that left protest organizers try to keep violence in check, so it’s notable when it does happen with a “why do you think protest violence is impossible?”.
          Makes you sound like a bootlicker toeing the line.