Cops Infiltrate A Drum Circle Takes To The Streets

This march evolves organically from a drum circle outside the Convention Center in downtown Columbus, GA during a benefit rock concert and tabling inside.

It starts and ends spirited and peacefully despite infiltration, agitation, getting egged from the top of buildings, and being verbally assaulted by punks on bikes who look too old for smallbikes and too military for being just normal "townies."

NOTE:
A little before 3:48 on this video I see two undercover plainclothes cops run fast and aggressively out of a parking garage to join the march toward the front or our "right flank." I end this clip filming primarily them. They are clapping offbeat, and not chanting at all.

How do I know they are feds?

1) I kept an eye on one of them during previous years.
2) When I singled them out to other peacekeepers along the march they seperated and continued talking with each other by cellphone. (trust me, they're feds.)
3) Later that night they congregated with no less than 9 other undercover cops right there next to our spirited closing drumcircle. (They really do need to square away their gender balance, among other things. They were 8 men and 1 woman.)
4) In footage from the following day, I will be able to show something very dangerous and chilling that these dorks
tried to do to our march (the most violent thing that COULD be tried really besides shooting us maybe...) which got
foiled by our own collective common sense and dignity.

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[Christopher Errante]

I would like to give you my support for your very intelligent comments you made in the about this video section. They were informative and I was very fascinated to know about the federal agents. This is an awesome representation of our march and it really gives a good name to it. We need more marches like this and the people who participated really did show a collective common sense, the police really showed they are just slaves to their own system by trying to undermine us.

[milwaukeeindymedia]

thanks. And I agree. The fact that we stayed civil and continued on speaks highly of us. And it allows the video to speak for itself and the actions of the police, well we don't have to even say much about them do we? Just shine a light on 'em a bit. :)

[RevBlazeB]

I was part of the group that started the drum circle. (I was the one with the Peace Helmet many of you signed) I have never been more proud of my friends from northland college initiated something so powerful.

[Mindraker1]

Those guys certainly don't belong "in the group". They also notice the cameras. I don't know if I, as an outsider, can agree that they were definitely "feds", but it is quite plausible that they are LEOs.

You guys are drumming on "anarchy drums" -- even though you are a peaceful crowd, I'm not surprised a few LEOs kept an eye on you just to make sure this didn't turn into a riot.

[rockthedrums4life]

thats lame

what are you guys trying to do and what are u about.you guys are confused

[DBD1787]

"The SOA has got to go! Hey, hey, ho, ho!"

[anachronimity]

we were chanting stuff like "this is what democracy looks like" "whose streets?/our streets" "hey hey, ho ho, the SOA has got to go" and some other chants. Yea i remember trying to talk to some of these copper chums and they wouldnt speak, they wouldnt say anything, or even chant. They just kept looking at eachother and signaling and shit. I saw some hanging out with the cops later at the convention center. did anyone notice the fake legal team members telling us to stop on main?

[ladyjeebus]

They LOOK like cops, specially the one in the lighter color hat. With that shitty, stern look on his face, you know he's not there trying to make things better. Columbus cops are brutes, and are not known for their intelligence....it looks like they didn't even try to blend in. But hey, that's not a bad thing...

[Harley Hyland]

My friend Tony and I were in this drum circle. Really cool, the circle started out at the back of the convention center and we marched through the convention center outside and some cops tried to break it up so we just went to the streets :)

[milwaukeeindymedia]

Let's just say if he incompetently dropped it out of his pocket he's in serious trouble. But I'm much more suspicious they left it there on purpose trying to start a riot. The words "shame, shame, shame..." come to mind.

[milwaukeeindymedia]

I'll have to wait on putting video up, sorry. I'll describe it. Two of the many undercover cops that we'd outed left a handgun on the ground by a mailbox between two of the saw horses. No one responded so uniformed cops had to pick it up and find the right owner of it on their own and not make a scene.