In anticipation of May Day and the general strike and marches that were announced, the police in NYC are kicking down doors and detaining supposed "ringleaders". There has been reports of police with warrants entering homes searching for subjects that are not residents of those homes.
The police then search the entire premises and interrogate the residents about May Day.
KGB? We don't need not stinkin KGB, we can do it ourselves!
This morning around 6:30am at least two houses were raided by NYPD detectives. In both cases, the cops used the pretext of spurious arrest warrants to gain access to apartments of local anarchists. The warrants were for individuals unconnected to those homes, but allowed cops access to one and apparently justified them forcibly breaking into another.
After entering the apartments the police searched them, intimidated the residents, and ran their identification. In one of the instances, an anarchist organizer was taken into a separate room and interrogated by detectives about past actions and upcoming plans for May Day.
It awaits to be seen if more houses were subject to raids this morning. Regardless, this 'preemptive strike' by the NYPD was clearly a coordinated effort to intimidate local organizers and fish for information.
Be careful the police are armed and dangerous: