When the Occupy movement surged out of nowhere and became a rallying point for millions of people angry at the financial industry that had laid waste to the world economy with its voracious and insatiable greed, the powers that be (the media, the police, the oligarchs and their political lapdogs) were galvanized into action. The movement was dealt with harshly by law enforcement at the local, state and federal level. It was smeared and ridiculed by the media. Any member of the media in the streets covering the protests "sympathetically" (read: objectively) was subject to abuse and even arrest.
Institutional greed had to be protected at all costs.
Four years later, you can arguably call the crushing of the Occupy movement a success.
Now the pillars of institutional racism are being challenged and the same attack dogs and tactics are being used against the Black Lives Matter movement. Leaders are characterized as "terrorists" or "criminals", law enforcement is infiltrating and spying on anyone viewed as supporting or sympathetic, and the media ignores, trivializes, or attacks the activists who dare to organize and speak up.
There are some differences, of course. OWS activists were predominantly white, so the police while brutal, restrained themselves to beatings, rubber bullets and pepper spray. BLM activists, on the otehr hand, are at risk of summary execution.
So, the question is: Does BLM suffer the same ignominious fate as the Occupy movement?