NYPD agent arrested for biker beating spied on Occupy activists

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A NYPD cop arrested in connection with the violent biker brawl last month in Manhattan reportedly worked as an undercover officer and tried to infiltrate the Occupy movement and the activism community that supported Anonymous hacktivist Jeremy Hammond.

Officer Wojciech Braszczok, 32, was arrested this week for his alleged role in the Sept. 29 beating of a sport utility vehicle driver on the West Side of Manhattan. Video of the incident was captured live from the scene showing a parade of bikers assaulting the SUV driver after a minor fender bender between his truck and a motorcycle, and the subsequent media coverage has caused the video to go viral and catapulted the story to becoming one of the most discussed events in recent weeks. ...

Early Wednesday, several New Yorkers began discussing over social media still unconfirmed reports that Braszczok was the same supposed Occupy activist who occasionally posted online using the Twitter handle “Evovillen” and identified himself at gatherings as “Al.” ...

Now as pieces of the puzzle continue to fall into place, Occupiers are raising new questions about the NYPD’s already peculiar involvement in OWS, a two-year-old movement marred by a series of violent incidents between police officers and protesters that worsened tensions among demonstrators who largely opposed the surveillance tactics utilized by the NYPD that had been previously discovered. Mysterious surveillance trucks circled Lower Manhattan at the height of the movement, and the America Civil Liberties Union at one point petitioned the city of New York to remove closed-circuit television cameras posted directly on top of the Occupy encamp at Zuccotti Park.