Local Reporter Tries To Find Drugs At Occupy Boston, Hilarity Ensues
Like many of the Occupy movements across the country, Occupy Boston has been nursing a delicate drug problem on the premises, and as more people get arrested for dealing and taking drugs in the tents, one local news station decided to visit the site and night and find out just how rampant the drug use is. With protesters claiming they are getting a bad reputation for a select few of “bad apples,” WHDH sent a reporter to find drugs, and it didn’t take long for coughing and laughing groups of people within tents to push the reporter away.
WHDH reported that, this week, members of Occupy Boston had been arrested as the police had begun sending undercover officers to find the people bringing drugs into the camp site. Drugs are explicitly prohibited and the protest organizers have put signs up telling people not to bring drugs or alcohol. Despite that, several dealers have been arrested. WHDH reports:
Members of Occupy Boston now occupy a local jail after three more people were arrested for selling drugs at the peaceful protests. Boston police said plain clothes officers went to the camp Thursday night to see if they could buy crack. Officers said two men offered to sell some, but they had run out of their supply.
Police said the men then walked the officers to the Pine Street Inn [a local homeless shelter] where a third man provided the drugs. Occupy Boston members are aware some drug dealers are here but it is a select few that are a problem.
After this report, WHDH sent their reporter Tim Caputo on site at Dewey Square, where he found several people during the day willing to claim that “it’s not a drug environment,” but at night, he followed the scent of marijuana to “a tent with smoke billowing out.” When someone told the people inside that “Channel 7” was outside, the group started coughing, cursing, and shouting, and told the reporters to leave. While some members of the protest insisted there was no drug use there, it’s hard to imagine what else was going on in that tent that involved smoke and marijuana scents that would cause everyone to run and hide from the cameras.
The video via WHDH below:
