This is a weak kneed advisory......The following message is unhealthy for all those apologists for the gestapo police state agents and their supporters!!    Are police a part of the 99%?  This has become an almost common theme coming from the primarily White middle class oriented participants in the Occupy movement.  I certainly don't criticize them for being White or middle class, but it is what it is.  As an African man who emerged from the terrors of the innercity that all you fake macho pro-police/military cowards would quake in your boots if you had to venture in there without all your hardware (and I'm sure even with your hardware).....I can tell you honestly that from the perspective of the African working class (and I'm sure every other working class community as well), calling police our allies is like telling a family whose relatives were killed by Mafioso hitmen that the hitmen are their allies.....It's only the Dons and godftathers who gave the order that are the enemy.  As long as they protect the interests of the ruling class before they decide to defy that stupidity and act like working class people......Police are unfortunately not allies to working class people.  And believe me, as a person working to help secure participants in the Occupy movement, I can tell you there are many people who share our point of view.  And everyday, with each peaceful demonstrator police viciously beat, they are doing more than we could ever do to bring more and more people over to our way of thinking.