http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/03/new-media-gets-results-police-arrest-violent-occupier-featured-in-video-posted-by-breitbart/


Kudos to my former co-blogger John Sexton over at Breitbart for
flagging this senseless act of violence yesterday morning by an occupy
protester in Los Angeles. The protester was caught on tape whacking a
female police officer on the back of her head with a drum (video
embedded below), and now he’s going to pay the price for his stupidity.
Early Wednesday morning Breitbart News posted a video of
an Occupy protester in LA smashing a drum into the head of a female LAPD
officer. At the time the video had fewer than 25 views. Within hours
the video began to spread around the web on blogs and social media
sites. Just over 24 hours later it has been viewed more than 200,000
times.
Yesterday afternoon, KTLA reported that a suspect in the attack had
been detained and was being questioned. This morning, the LAPD announced
the arrest of Brian Mendoza age 23. Sources say Mendoza is “6 feet tall
and weighs 280 pounds.” By contrast, the officer he attacked is said to
be 5’1″ and just over 100 pounds.
This isn’t the first time
new media has played a role in highlighting threats and acts of
violence on the part of occupy protesters which would have otherwise
gone unnoticed…and punished. It’s encouraging to see interest on the
part of the local media at least to cover a story like this, even if I
don’t expect MSNBC to ever give much air time to the darker side of the
occupy movement.
Ultimately I think the occupiers are going to have an uphill battle
maintaining whatever level of public support they still have, thanks
primarily to the efforts of the conservative new media. While only a
small number of occupiers may actually commit acts of violence,
incidents like these occur with frightening regularity, and they aren’t
just isolated to one or two locales either. While no movement should be
judged entirely on the basis of its worst elements, these acts are to be
expected from a movement whose core membership includes large numbers
of anarchists, communists, and other radical leftists agitating against
the police. I’m pretty certain most of the 99% they claim to represent
are as disgusted by this as we are, and any after-the-fact condemnation
by other occupy participants rings hollow with this sort of thing
happening over and over again.