Does anyone have an UPDATE? Has the person arrested been released-or is he being held? Were charges dropped, or have future court dates been set?

This incident, as ugly as it was, would have been even worse had it been a kid in the neighborhood protesting at a condo project. The same made up bullshit where someone is struck and then charged with assault is a standard routine to hold people of color pending "trials" that usually turn into plea-bargain BS fests.

None the less, this marks a dangerous escalation in repressive tactics against activists (potentially ALL activists seen as effective), and must be answered forcefully and without mercy.

Maybe after a good ass-kicking downtown(in court or otherwise), the cops will be a little less inclined to pull this shit in the neighborhoods when people decide to fight back against gentrification, landlord terror, and the nightly drumbeat of police brutality.