Thread: Protester arrested after flinging bricks from rooftop during SF standoff

Interesting that they felt the need to occupy a building owned by Archdiocese of San Francisco. Is this another paid union protestor?
If so, this says a lot about the job market and we should look for the unemployment numbers to go down between now and the elections as the unions and progressive organizations hire large numbers of agitators to create havoc and to reduce the unemployment numbers for the administration. Unfortunately, politics, and the quest for power sometimes trumps good sense and decency JMO

Protester arrested after flinging bricks from rooftop during SF standoff

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Christien Kafton
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video SAN FRANCISCO: Protester arrested after throwing brick from roof of occupied building

KTVU.com and wires
SAN FRANCISCO —

Officers in riot gear withdrew from their position in front of a building in San Francisco Tuesday night that is being occupied by protesters after facing off with activists for several hours.

Officers arrested two protesters during Tuesday's demonstration at 888 Turk St., police said.

Jesse Nesbitt, 34, of San Francisco was arrested after he allegedly threw bricks and other projectiles from the roof of the building at around 5:45 p.m., police Sgt. Michael Andraychak said.

One of the bricks missed a police officer and struck a protester, who refused medical attention, and another projectile damaged a police vehicle, Andraychak said.

Nesbitt is facing charges of aggravated assault, aggravated assault of a police officer and felony vandalism, police said.

Another protester, Adam Delia, 24, was cited and released on suspicion of being a pedestrian in the roadway and disobeying a traffic officer, Andraychak said.

Police said Delia went into the street and tried to pick up a piece of brick that had been thrown from the roof.

Earlier Tuesday evening a handful of protestors sat cross-legged between police lines and the front of the building, while other protestors remained inside the building and in Jefferson Square Park, across the street.

By around 7 p.m. protesters remained inside the building and three males and one female were on the roofs of 888 Turk St. and a nearby building on Gough Street, the St. Paul's Lutheran Evangelical Day School, drinking beer, smoking cigarettes and singing into a bullhorn.
At around 7:30 p.m. police withdrew from the front of the building and continued to monitor the situation.

The occupation began when protesters who had gathered for a noon rally at Market and Montgomery streets downtown marched to 888 Turk St. afterward and began entering the building shortly before 3 p.m.

The building is the same site, owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, that was taken over by protesters on April 1.

Andraychak said earlier today that the protesters were trespassing on private property.

"We've been in touch with the folks at the archdiocese," he said.
Protesters removed a large wire fence in front of the building and activists streamed into the building this afternoon, holding banners and signs reading "May Day, Never Surrender" and "SF Commune."

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