happen—Michael Moore asked acop, “Why don’ t you think the eviction happened?” The reply: “Because the mayor’ s afraid of YouTube.” (One month later, Mayor Bloomberg apparently lost that fear; by his order, the eviction happened at 1 a.m. The next afternoon, a protester, before being allowed back in, was overheard remarking, “The cops have occupied Zuccotti Park. We're just trying to figure out what their demands are.") Not only what occurred in Chicago in 1968 was officially labeled “a police riot” by a government-sponsored investigation, but also an undercover police provocateur—who was disguised as a local biker and acted as Jerry Rubin’ s bodyguard—would ultimately state that he participated in pulling down the American flag in Grant Park, destroying it, then running up the black flag of the Viet Cong in its place. “| joined in the chants and taunts against the police,” he said, “and provoked them to hitting me with their clubs. They didn’ t know who | was, but they did know that | had called them names and struck them with one or more weapons.” Now, as the Occupy model has spread around the country, police brutality has increased, and it’ s not surprising that there have been accusations of provocateurs sabotaging the nonviolent principle, not to HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015339