6:25pm | A brief overview of Monday night, Night 3 of Occupy Long Beach at Lincoln Park:

  • Demos informed me that OLB’s general assembly had come to a consensus that on this night there would be no acts of civil disobedience.
  • Police stated to Long Beach Post that they were aware in advance — by way of social media — both that OLB had not intended acts of civil disobedience for Tuesday night, and that there might be some demonstrators from outside OLB who intended otherwise (hence the increased police presence in the park). This turned out to be the case, as a member of a small contingent from Occupy Los Angeles, who had traveled to Long Beach to support OLB, chose to remain in the park after police ordered demonstrators to clear out at 10 p.m. He was arrested.
  • During a later “mic check” (a general announcement to group members within earshot), OLBers said they had been told in advance that there might be “troublemakers” in among the OLAers, and expressed their feelings that OLA was not necessarily respecting the consensus process OLB has implemented for its collective decision-making.
  • OLAers reported that another of their members had been pulled from a car by police as he and his girlfriend were driving away from the Lincoln Park demonstration. At 1:30 a.m. police confirmed that a 30-year-old male who refused to give his name was arrested at approximately 12:30 a.m. at 3rd Street and Magnolia Ave. for a violation of LBMC Sec. 16.16.010(k) — being in the park after closing time — and was being held on $50 bail.
  • At various points during the evening several OLAers accused the police of not actually being police officers, but impersonators, because they had not taken the proper oaths mandated by both the U.S. and California Constitutions.1 The OLAers took the officers’ responses (and non-responses) to these accusations as evidence supporting this position.

1 I’m sure about the not-being-a-legit-officer thing and its having to do with not having taken the necessary oath(s); I may be a little fuzzy on the details, though.