Police Violence Predicted

This was a lead story at various points this afternoon:

• Dress down for the NATO protests if you work downtown?

  Both protesters and a security consultant for the NATO summit are laughing off suggestions that downtown office workers dress casually to avoid becoming targets of protesters.

  The idea behind the suggestion is to blend in, and not dress in standard business attire.

Then they started interviewing the Occupy protestors:

• Occupy Chicago’s Rachael Perotta echoed Heintze, telling WBBM Newsradio such memos and rumors are nothing but “classic fear mongering.”

  [...] “We’re not here to disrupt ordinary Chicagoans’ lives,” she said. “We’re not here to target people.”

  Perotta said the Occupy protesters are committed to non-violence, adding, “I think that all threats to safety during the summits are going to come from the Chicago Police Department and the hired goons that Mayor one-percent has rounded up to patrol the streets of Chicago.”

Nice paragraph. The police are a threat to safety and in fact, Rahm has hired goons to patrol the streets. We won't even get a decent shake during contract negotiations and Rahm is burning money hiring goons? What the hell is going on around here?

And as long as we're on the subject of delusional psychosis, anyone find any houses for the protestors?