Undercover Cop Pulls Gun During Michael Brown Protest

Protesters in Oakland, California, were demonstrating over the grand jury decisions not to indict officers in Ferguson and New York City when an undercover cop dressed in plainclothes pulled out his gun.

According to tweets captured in a Storify, and a report from NBC News, a cop pulled out his gun and aimed it at protesters. The officer says he pulled out a gun after being attacked. But some witness reports on Twitter suggest a protester threw a punch only after the officer pulled out his gun.

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    you’d have to work really hard to believe this is an isolated thing you need to believe every story you read about...
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    Clearly this dude has been watching too many action movies. The #1 rule of firearms is that you DO NOT point your weapon...
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    Just a disguised cop hanging out purely for public safety but then those thugs just randomly attacked him for no reason...
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    It’s called using “Agent Provocateurs”, the concept is while the protest is small and lawful, get an action that can be...
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