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LA occupiers arrested for public masturbation, battery, and assault with a deadly weapon

November 16, 2011

Aren’t these the types of folks you would like to spend some time with just hanging-out?

From LA Times

Five people at the Occupy L.A. encampment have been charged with separate crimes, including a man who allegedly exposed himself and commited a sex act in front of a child, officials said Tuesday.

Angele Chaidez, 21, faces one count of lewd conduct and one count of indecent exposure for allegedly exposing himself and masturbating in front of several people, including children, Friday on the south steps of City Hall, said prosecutors with the L.A. city attorney’s office.

That same day, Zachary Isaac, 21, allegedly entered a woman’s tent and called her “Satan.” After the woman asked Isaac to leave, he allegedly punched her in the face with a closed fist. Prosecutors charged him with one count of battery resulting in injury.

Robert Holland Jr., 31, allegedly waved a knife at another person on Halloween, then resisted arrest, prosecutors said. He was charged with one count of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of brandishing a deadly weapon, one count of disturbing the peace and one count of resisting arrest.

Michael Howard Thomson, 51, was charged with two counts of battery and one count of resisting arrest after getting into a physical altercation with a parent over a child, prosecutors said.Thompson is accused of approaching a man in a tent Oct. 11 and pushing him while attempting to grab a 2-year old child, prosecutors said.Another person tried to intervene and Thompson punched him in the face, prosecutors said. When police arrived, Thompson allegedly refused to cooperate and violently resisted officers’ efforts to detain him.Farid Ahntab, 24, faces one count each of possession of a deadly weapon, brandishing a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest following three separate incidents at the camp.He allegedly brandished a knife at officers Oct. 29, tried to light a food vendor on fire with a lighter Nov. 4 and resisted arrest Nov. 11.

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3 Responses to LA occupiers arrested for public masturbation, battery, and assault with a deadly weapon

  1. jasmine November 16, 2011 at 8:57 am #

    What is a two year old doing in a tent at a protest site where it has been reported people are doing drugs? I guess one of the next demands will be for free daycare for protesters.

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  2. Flagwaver November 16, 2011 at 10:05 am #

    I’m curious why DHS (Human Services not Homeland Security) isn’t sweeping the camps to get the children the heck out of there.

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  3. Travis November 16, 2011 at 12:37 pm #

    The Occupy movement advocates socialism. The Soviet Union was socialist. Hey didn’t the USSR send their trouble makers to exile in Siberia? Now there’s a good ideal, when ever Occupy protesters commit crimes, we should send them to “occupy” Siberia.

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