have been asked to intervene on a couple of occasions for supporting the occupiey san francisco occupatin at 101 market street and at the plaza. the first time i was asked to intervene was on october 5. i got a phone call at about 11:30 p.m. at night. there was concern that the san francisco police department was going to come and remove people's belongings from the occupation on 101 market street. i have talked to the officer in charge. i also call the police chief. the police chief told me he would get back to me before any action was taken and then proceeded to ask the officers who were on duty, about 40 or 50 of them, to put on their helmets and take their batons and march in formation to work towards separating belongings from the actual protesters who were part of the occupysf movement. i was alarmed about that. i expressed concern. to the chief of police that if he were to take action, the conflict of removing people's belongings could lead to violent confrontation, and wanted to avoid that. i also expressed concern that if we were to try and stop that the occupation from happening